During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,European Aristocrats Found Themselves in General

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,European aristocrats found themselves in general

A) more independent from monarchs than they had been during the Middle Ages.
B) no more or less independent from monarchs than they had been during the Middle Ages.
C) less independent from monarchs than they had been during the Middle Ages.
D) winning most of the civil wars that they fought against monarchs.