Placed legal restrictions on rulers who had once held absolute power.
The main reason why the Catholic Church was committed to defending the literal meaning of the Bible passages is because they feared that people would stray from the church if they started to develop their own, different interpretations of the Bible.
Answer:
spanish?
Explanation:
Spanish empire was too large to control.
Spain had lots of interior problems and this was more important than colonies.
That would be productivity.
It was the year 1798 that Thomas Malthus predicted that the humanity would be met with mass starvation. His prediction was based on an assumption that human population would far exceed the means of producing food and that we just would not be able to produce enough food for everyone. But the technological advancement and the advanced farming techniques allowed us to increase productivity and thus avert this prediction.
