Which of the Following Statements Concerning the Political Fragmentation of the Arabic

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements concerning the political fragmentation of the Arabic world is most accurate?

A) After the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, the emerging Ottoman Empire soon mastered most of the lands of the old caliphate plus the Byzantine corner.
B) The political fragmentation caused by the fall of Baghdad lasted for several centuries under the decentralized administration of the Seljuk Turks.
C) The Mongol conquests eliminated any form of centralized government in the Middle East until the 17th century.
D) Following the fall of the Abbasid caliphate, the Middle East became part of the colonial empire of the emerging feudal states of western Europe.