HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The Catholic Church created the order of Jesuit priest
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No longer was the Catholic Church the only Christian branch
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People started to convert to Buddhism and Hinduism
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Protestant Reformation caused wars of religion in parts of Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ultimately the Protestant Reformation led to modern democracy, skepticism, capitalism, individualism, civil rights, and many of the modern values we cherish today. The Protestant Reformation increased literacy throughout Europe and ignited a renewed passion for education.
Detailed explanation-2: -The literature on the consequences of the Reformation shows a variety of short-and long-run effects, including Protestant-Catholic differences in human capital, economic development, competition in media markets, political economy, and anti-Semitism, among others.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its rise was influenced by currents of nationalism, mercantilism, anticlericalism, and opposition to vested property interests in the hands of the church that had begun in the late fourteenth century.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity. The Reformation led to the reformulation of certain basic tenets of Christian belief and resulted in the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Protestant countries, people no longer had allegiance to the Pope: the secular ruler became the highest authority. In Catholic countries, the Church gave more power to secular rulers to help fight Protestantism. In general, France, Italy, Spain and Southern Germany remained Catholic.