s five hundred years. http://history.idbsu.edu/westciv/crusades/21.htm)One must "be cautious" in "assigning" any significant historic event or movement that evolved from the Crusades but the quote is included to show the how religion has played such a vital role in dividing people. Knox further argues that making enemies of the church became such a "commonplace" activity that "Crusading activity simply became a part of European culture." He also contends: In a sense, the religious wars of the Protestant Reformation are the logical result of this mentality; by the time Europeans had exhausted themselves in internal religious war, we hear no more about wars against the infidel. Exactly, the internal religious wars had become external which sets the historical stage for the Protestant Reformation. The third distinction outlined earlier discusses how religion in homogeneous societies can divide people. The Protestant Reformation perhaps is the best example of this occurrence. Unlike Ergamenes in the Ku*censored*e Empire and Akhenaton in the Ancient Egyptian civilization, King Henry VIII's great matter altered the course of history forever and divided people along distinct lines. Henry VIII, desperate for a son and believing that Catharine of Aragon could not provide him a son, seeks an annulment from their marriage on grounds that Catharine violated their marriage by consummating her first marriage to his brother who died. The Vatican in Italy did not support the King's claim therefore he separates from the Roman Catholic Church and creates the Anglican Church of England. The ramifications that this move had on Parliament and the people of England were paramount. Parliament had new found power in that the Church money no longer flowed to the Vatican and the King needed to get Parliament's permission for most funds. King Henry VIII, however, successfully starts the tradition of Protestantism in Europe, which ultimately leads to th...
