The item that was NOT a cause of the Reformation:
C. The desire to spread Islam to Western Europe.
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The Roman Catholic Church failed to provide much hope or comfort to people during the years of the 100 Years War and the devastation of the Black Death. Corruption within the church only became worse in the years that followed, and people were wanting change. Coupled with that were new ideas and challenges being posed by the start of the Scientific Revolution. Martin Luther, whose activity sparked the Reformation, was a contemporary of Nicolaus Copernicus, whose work sparked the Scientific Revolution.
The Puritans were protestants that were trying to reform the Protestant religion in England. They were trying to kick out the Catholic influence from the England. So they practically had their own new movement, Puritanism, that was know for it's intensity for the religious experience that it fostered. So all in all, the Puritans were Anglicans.
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The second industrial revolution contributed to imperialism because during the second industrial revolution we needed to take advice from the people living in the colonies. They had superior technology and innovations and the west quickly began buying all of the colonies products. An unfortunate outcome is that the colonies exploited the labor and natural resources of the west and took advantage of the countries who had colonized them.
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