The competition between Catholic Spain and other European countries, such as England, the Netherlands, and even France was partly driven by Religious competition.
<h3>What is the
Religious competition?</h3>
The state of religious competition is an expression of relations between religious groups and how they, as parts of the religious society.
For the process of European expansion and the colonial endeavors from the late 15th century to the 19th, the historians of the Atlantic world have more often than not identified the imperial states as the most powerful players: the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English (later British).
From these empires’ perspectives, colonization was also about converting the “heathen” to, first, Catholicism, and then, with the Reformation and the rise of different varieties of Protestantism, to other denominations as well.
Colonization in the early modern period was as much about religious missions, about “the harvest of souls,” as it was about expanding territorial boundaries and economic resource
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