What was the main reason the literature of Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer was significant?
A) Latin was no longer the preferred language of the educated.
B) They represent the educated who were underappreciated in their own time.
C) Education in Latin was clearly reinforced in their writings.
D) The Church engaged in serious reforms after their publication.
E) They represented masterpieces written in the vernacular rather than Latin.
E
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Japanese culture during the Meiji Restoration
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A) Oliver O. Howard B) Samuel Chapman Armstrong C) William T. Sherman D) John Fee