Answer:
Spain and England have exploited the religious tensions to promote economic and political interests.
Explanation:
- Spanish Armada- King Philip II sent to England a 130 ships fleet to defeat them, but lost and gave England naval dominance. Publicly about religion was mainly about Spain seeking to get rid of England as an Atlantic competitor.
- Seen as the beginning of the end of Spanish dominance and the start of the emergence of English hegemony, the battle of thirty years (1618–48) commenced. A series of European wars that were mostly Catholic-Protestant led to disputes.
- It was the war between France and its Hapsburg opponents, and the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, that ended in Westphalia 's peace.
