WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The establishment of national churches and the rise of modern nation-states in the Western Europe strengthened each other. In Protestant countries, like Holland, England and the Scandinavian countries, rulers strengthened royal and national power and stimulated the rise of their nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Protestant Reformation in Europe indirectly spurred the early settlement of Colonial America. The Reformation created geopolitical, social, and religious forces that pushed English explorers, colonists, and migrants toward North America.

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: -While Protestant reformers aimed to elevate the role of religion, we find that the Reformation produced rapid economic secularization. The interaction between religious competition and political economy explains the shift in investments in human and fixed capital away from the religious sector.