HIST 2111 Lecture 1: Lecture 1/2
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1517- martin luther nails 95 thesis to the catholic door of what"s wrong with the catholic church. Protestant reformation: church of england what henry viii started- you are what the king is. If you don"t follow what the catholic or protestant do they will kill you. So you have to go away if you want to practice what you want. Population growth: static for a while and then grows all at once. Enclosure: wealthy land owners block off their land and raise sheep. They decided they needed colonies to ship people off. Rivalry between england and spain england protestant spain- catholic. Spain is the most powerful county because of christopher columbus 1492) Spain has land claims gold and silver which leads to power. England wants to compete so they colonize in the new world. Easy money- english think they can get it from colonizing because spain did.
