<span>The Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation was the
efforts of the Catholic Church to rehabilitate the Church and to win back
people to the faith. Various orders were
mobilized to attain these goals. The
Clerics of St. Paul who were also known as Barnabites was founded to care for
people who were suffering and to uplift their moral standards. Another order was the Cleric Residents of Somascha
also known as the Somaschi who worked in hospitals and orphanages. Others like the Capuchins who are still part
of the Franciscan Order led simple lives were involved in works of
charity. The Ursulines were devoted to
educating girls. The most aggressive was
the Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. Its followers were very aggressive in
spreading the faith and they were educated as well as talented. They also spread the faith beyond Europe
gaining more converts to the Catholic faith.
Though they differed in their
approach all these orders helped in making the Counter Reformation a success.</span>
India traded throughout the Indian Ocean Basin, but once Portugal began to control the area, both Asian and Arab merchants were forced to pay protection <span>money so their cargo would not be seized.</span>
