Episode 204 – 1450-1750: Cultural Expansion and Realignment

We’ll close out our study of this era by learning how an entirely new sect of Christianity, Protestantism, had emerged and was now competing with Roman Catholicism for influence in European state affairs. Meanwhile, the emerging Scientific Revolution was calling preconceived beliefs about the workings of the natural world into question. The Roman Catholic states of Portugal and Spain had made a push to globalize their faith, spreading it throughout their empires and trade posts in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Tensions between Shia and Sunni had flared intensely during the era and a new religion was forming in India that argued all Hindus and Muslims were all children of God. 

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