A.P. European - Religious leaders of France

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Philips home base, Castile, was very populated and wealthy. Bartholomew’s day, it became strictly anti-protestant nation. Another one of his weaknesses was the increasing population. A pious Catholic, he ruled his lands by pen and paper as opposed to presence. He shrewdly organized the lesser nobility into a loyal national bureaucracy. He even added to the bankruptcy of the Fuggers when he defaulted on major debts. This battle of religion and political power was now a struggle to the death for sheer survival against the enemy whose cruelty gave reason to any means of protestant resistant. The background to the establishment of the Anglican church in England first began with the Guises and Medicis family (In Chapter 12). Philip II, meddling with French and English affairs also placed Spain in a bad position, politically, and weakened its hold over the Netherlands, causing its eventual defeat by the Netherlands. Louis XIV would later revoke this and make an Anglican church, again. This Netherlands then succeeded against Spain. Furthermore, Philips II’s subjugated peasantry and immense wealth from the new world become another pillar that upheld Spain’s strength in dominance.

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