The late fourteenth-century marriage of Jagiello and Jadwiga connected their kingdom to the Holy Roman Empire because they ______________.
A. were Catholic rather than Eastern Orthodox
B. waged war against Russia
C. joined the Teutonic Knights to fight the Mongols
D. embraced the economic opportunities brought by the Hanseatic League
E. married their children into the Habsburg family
Answer: A
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