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PLEASE HELP!! Which word or phrase best describes the political and religious atmosphere of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

A. progressive
B. radical yet plain
C. highly ritualistic
D. tumultuous

User PhilLab
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I believe the correct answer is D) tumultuous.

User Osman M Elsayed
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I believe the correct answer is D) tumultuous. The church was in a crisis, it was losing power and peasants were rising up against it and the noblemen. The Reformation also moved the center of power from the Roman Catholic church to the German Lutheran church. 
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