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A Fracture Faith
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1517
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1648
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16th Century - 17th Century
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Vocabulary
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Peardeck™
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Coming Soon
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In 1517, a German monk posts a list of criticisms towards the Catholic Church sparking a division within the Western Church between Protestants and Catholics that comes at a time of political and social discontent with Europe.
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The Protestant Reformation doesn't confine itself to the Germanic states, but also spreads to England where it is used to bring about political change and separation from the political influence of Rome. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church seeks to reform itself in the midst of the growing threat of Protestantism.
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Rivalry and politics force France into a bitter religious civil war over the future religious identity of the kingdom as Calvinism spreads across western Europe. Elsewhere, Spanish colonies in the New World help Spain reaches its golden age under Philip II while his European colonies challenge Spanish rule on political and religious grounds.
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England faces a religious identity crisis that brings it into conflict with Spain. In continental Europe, religion and politics engulfs Europe in a bloody war for the mere survival of Protestantism and the soul of Europe. Both events In the the end will see a new world order emerge changing the geopolitical landscape of not only Europe but the world.
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