Immediately to the east of the Carolingian territories lay
A) a vast empty steppe (prairie) extending to the Ural Mountains.
B) Slavic lands, some of which were converted to Catholicism and some to Orthodoxy.
C) Scandinavia, with a monarchy rising in Denmark under Carolingian pressure.
D) the most northern lands of Islam.
E) colonies of Byzantium.
Ans: B
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