Civilizations were traditionally ruled by one supreme leader.

"beginning at paris, the french soldiers and the roman catholic clergy fell upon the unarmed people, and blood flowed like a river throughout the entire country. men, women, and children fell in heaps before the mobs and the bloodthirsty troops."—françois dubois, saint bartholomew's day, 1592 the events described in this eyewitness account were the result of the a. thirty years' war. b. french persecution of huguenots. c. reign of terror. d. revocation of the edict of nantes.