Which best describes the relationship between the church and feudal states?

a. the church and the states worked together well with little conflict.
b. the church and the states constantly struggled for supreme power.
c. the states had sole control over the people, and the church's power was ceremonial.
d. the states had little power and made no decisions without the church's input.

Option B. The following statement best describes the relationship between the Church and the feudal states:

The Church and the states constantly struggled for supreme power.

Explanation:

Feudalism was a way in which societies were organized in Europe during the medieval times. It broadly consisted of a set of legal and military customs that set the holding of land in exchange for service or labor in the hands of nobles and lords. Although in the beginning, feudal states and the Church were both separated it did not take long for both entities to try to penetrate into the other in order to have supreme power over the community. While many churches were becoming lord's owning states, leaders who had important positions within the Church were also trying to weaken the feudal lords who owned land nearby the Church. Both of these important power agents during the medieval times had a conflicted relationship in which they both constantly struggled for supreme power.

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