Question

In the 1500s, major wars broke out in Europe between which two groups?

Puritans and Huguenots

Protestants and Catholics

Tudors and Stuarts

monarchs and popes

Answer 1

Protestants and Catholics

Wars of Religion, (1562–98) conflicts in France between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The spread of French Calvinism persuaded the French ruler Catherine de Médicis to show more tolerance for the Huguenots, which angered the powerful Roman Catholic Guise family.