The Sick man of Europe<span> was a label given to a </span>European country<span> who were experiencing a time of difficulty or impoverishment. This term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the </span>Ottoman Empire.
The south had susceeded from the union rendering any union law useless, but garunteed freedom if they were to come to the union, inspiring many to fight back
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The Catholic Church was slow to respond systematically to the theological and publicity innovations of Luther and the other reformers. The Council of Trent, which met off and on from 1545 through 1563, articulated the Church’s answer to the problems that triggered the Reformation and to the reformers themselves.
The Catholic Church of the Counter-Reformation era grew more spiritual, more literate and more educated. New religious orders, notably the Jesuits, combined rigorous spirituality with a globally minded intellectualism, while mystics such as Teresa of Avila injected new passion into the older orders. Inquisitions, both in Spain and in Rome, were reorganized to fight the threat of Protestant heresy.
Feudalism worked easy because it was a system that worked from top to bottom. At the top you had the King which provided money for the Nobility that provided troops and protection for the king. Then the Nobility would bestow the land to his knights that would give the land to the peasants and they owned the land and farmer on it. The knights would provide military service for food that they farmed.