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which could no longer contain
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all the varieties of Protestant denominations
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which had emerged,
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leading to the granting finally of religious toleration in the
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late seventeenth century.
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In 1500, it was largely a localized economy of peasant
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families and urban craftsmen.
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By 1700, it was a highly commercialized market economy,
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capitalistic in structure
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and engaged in trade with a much larger world,
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especially with the East and with the Atlantic.
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In 1500, it's a world of rural communities and small towns with