were called witches and blamed for crop failures, diseases etc. They were captured and put to death. It has been estimated that about , people in Europe were put on trial and , put to death in the Inquisition. Effects of Counter Reformation Due to the Counter Reformation, Europe was divided along religious lines.
Wars broke out within the countries and with the countries professing faith in different denomination. The Thirty-Years’War fought between and at various provinces of Holy Roman Empire was an example of this division. Protestant churches were austere, while the Catholic churches became more ornamental. Both the religious communities used education as a tool to spread their religious and spiritual ideas.