In addition to the social, scientific and technological changes brought about by the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, which we saw in the previous unit, The change produced by the Protestant Reformation: the separation of the Catholic Church from hundreds of thousands of Christians, especially in the center and northern Western Europe, who established particular churches without an obedience to the Pope. He questioned the papacy and corruption in Rome for the practice of selling indulgences, while, as he claimed, salvation depends only on the grace of God and not on the forgiveness of men.
Other reformers stood out, such as the French John Calvin, the Swiss Ulrich Zwingli, and King Henry VIII, who decided to separate the entire Church of England from the obedience of the Pope.
