Answer:
Dissenters
Explanation:
The term dissenters was widely used in 17th and 18th centuries. Generally, these dissenters were only a group of people that opposed the states' intervention to personal religious matters. (At that time, England wanted the church to be heavily involved in all political decisions).
But, many church officials at that time blatantly categorized these dissenters as someone who oppose the church and Christianity as a whole to diminish public support for them.
Answer: spheres of influence
In international relations, a sphere of influence is a region over which a state has a level of cultural, economic, military or political control. This control is exclusive and more accommodating to the power outside the border.
China in the late 19th and 20th century was divided into these spheres of influence, as many European powers held control over large territories. These were taken either by military attacks, threats to the Chinese authorities or unequal treaties.
