The andwer is D, Seperate but equak
It gave more money to control its cities with
At the time, most rulers were Catholic and believed that the Pope had influence over all of them. And to top all of that, Roman Catholicism was the only Christian religion at the time.
they found a new and faster trade route it would be cheaper to get the goods. In 1488, King John II of Portugal sent a man by the name of Bartholomeu Dias to explore the southernmost part of Africa.