Which Was the Most Significant Event in Creating Byzantine Hostility

question 38

Multiple Choice

Which was the most significant event in creating Byzantine hostility toward the Latin Christian world?

• A) the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor on Christmas Day, 800
• B) the First Crusade
• C) the Iconoclastic Controversy
• D) the Fourth Crusade in 1204
• E) the execution of the Byzantine ambassador to Rome in 816

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