Select the correct answer.
What was the long-term effect of the European Reformation?
OA. Europeans were permanently divided into two religions, Catholicism and Protestantism.
OB. The political boundaries of European nations were redrawn based on religion.
C. The Catholic Church divided religious authority among individual churches.
OD. A number of new Christian religions developed, but they had different beliefs and practices.
OE. Each country developed a system of government that agreed with its dominant religion.

The Reformation was the religious (and political) movement that caused the permanent religious division of Western Europe: Countries like Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Austria, most of Switzerland, and Southern Germany, continued to be Catholic, while Scandinavia, Northern Germany, some areas of Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, became Protestant.

Protestanism separated from the Catholic Church inspired by the thesis of Martin Luther, a German monk who denounced the corruption inside the Catholic world.

Some Protestant denominations are: Anglicanism in England, Calvinism in Switzerland, and Lutheranism in Northern Germany and Scandinavia.