HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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breaking of religious unity in Europe
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strengthening of the political power of the Pope
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increase in the influence of the Catholic Church
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restoration of political unity to Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Reformation established many protestant sects. (A Protestant is generally considered to be a Christian who is not of the Roman catholic or Eastern Orthodox faiths.) In western Europe the Reformation shattered Catholic religious unity and led to Christian diversity.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The strife Martin Luther had unwittingly unleashed led to a chaotic series of wars that would last more than a century. Throughout the 1500s, Europe’s princes and kings jockeyed for power, using religion as their excuse. It culminated in a bloody free-for-all called the Thirty Years’ War that raged from 1618 to 1648.