The Reformation was one of the greatest disasters that ever struck the social and political scheme of all of Europe. One would think that a call to reform the immoral state of the Catholic Church would bring about greater spirituality and faith, but instead, the European Reformation of the sixteenth century resulted in disastrous peasant revolts that left thousands dead and shook up the political hierarchy of many European nations. The Reformation also created a …showed first 75 words of 1014 total…

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