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.
