Select one country in western Europe and one country in eastern Europe and compare how they handled religious divisions in the 1500s
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. France was a predominantly Catholic country with a significant Huguenot population.
b. Religious differences fueled by political factionalism contributed to decades of religious warfare in France.
c. The wars of religion in France came to an end when the Huguenot ruler who assumed the throne converted to Catholicism and issued the Edict of Nantes guaranteeing the Huguenots religious freedom and limited autonomy.
d. The constitution of Poland-Lithuania guaranteed religious freedom.
e. During the Catholic revival in Poland, religious tensions did not erupt into civil war as it had done in France.
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