Since the partition of British India in 1947 and creation of modern States of India and Pakistan, the two South Asian countries have been involved in four wars, including one undeclared war, and many border skirmishes and military stand-offs.
The Kashmir issue has been the main cause, whether direct or indirect, of all major conflicts between the two countries with the exception of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 where conflict originated due to turmoil in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Generally speaking, both the Enlightenment and American Revolution changed the way people viewed their relationship to their rulers in that they began to question the ultimate power and supremacy of a monarch, simply because he or she was born into the position.
Around that time, men were off in the war, leaving women to work the factory jobs. They had more work as more men fought.
C. polytheistic
Most worshiped many gods.
The Eddas are a collection of old norse poetry. That is something the church would not have used to influence medieval society.