Ever since the biblical dispute of Ishmael and Isaac, persons of different ethnic backgrounds have fought - verbally and physically - over matters of religion and culture. However, the Reformation era of the 15th through 17th Centuries brought about an historic and unique kind of discrimination, because Roman Catholicism in Europe had never been viably challenged within Christianity. True, Eastern Orthodoxy was developed earlier in the millennium, and its Church in Russia and Greece did …showed first 75 words of 386 total…

…showed last 75 words of 386 total…the Irish and Northern Irish. Catherine de Medici instigated a great massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day; she cunningly influenced her son, the king of France, to kill as many Huguenots as possible on this day. In conclusion, the Reformation, obviously being a time of change in religion and philosophy, was also a time for oppressive governmental powers to make numerous barbaric attempts to keep control. And although they inevitably failed, these powers invoked serious damage.