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Breakdown Of Authority And Power Of The Catholic Church

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One of the effects of the Reformation was The Protestant Reformation and this was the breakdown of authority and power of the Catholic Church. It happened with the causes of the plague called the Black Death and the Renaissance( Humanism and Secularism). This began on October 31,1517 with Martin luther being one of the most important people throughout all this.
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The kind of impact it had was wars erupted on Europe between Catholics and Protestants. And at the same time leaders try to break from the century old grip of the Catholic Church.
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They have become more powerful by this because they have raised the taxes on peasants and by this it had made their army bigger and a lot more stronger. The peasants do not like this so their response
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