The English practice of consultation between the king and lessor powers in the kingdom was initiated by __________.
A. William the Conqueror
B. Alfred the Great
C. Ethelred II
D. Harold of Wessex
Answer: B
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A) failure to assimilate Roman culture. B) Germanic tradition of elective succession to the kingship. C) severe persecution of heretics. D) backward landed system of vast estates worked by serfs.