At the outset of his reign, Henry VIII was a noted enemy of Protestants.
However, as the Pope would not annul his various marriages, Henry quickly turned on the Church and seized the Church's land for the Crown and created the Anglican Church.
The world saw Europe's involvement in the silver business as a strategy to enrich the old world countries, to improve the work. The world saw Europe as those who wanted to exploit these riches. Europe, for its part, had the vision to explore in order to invest.
