Originally Posted by Clivedurdle

It was a funny world then - it had been just about doubled in size following getting to the new world, the printing press was having huge effects.

The old guard of the catholic church had to reinvent itself, as did monarchs and states in the slow move from the feudal mindset.

Some nasty wars were fought, but I wonder were they religious wars or more old guard versus new guard. Religion was the language they used to express how they saw things.

I saw a comment that proportionally in the seventeenth century more people died from war than in the twentieth.