MAP 13.2 Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555The Reformations shattered the religious unity of Western Christendom. The situation was even more complicated than a map of this scale can show. Many cities within the Holy Roman Empire, for example, accepted a different faith than the surrounding countryside; Augsburg, Basel, and Strasbourg were all Protestant, though they were surrounded by territory ruled by Catholic nobles.> MAPPING THE PASTANALYZING THE MAP: Which countries were the most religiously diverse in Europe? Which were the least diverse?
CONNECTIONS: Where was the first arena of religious conflict in sixteenth- h-
CONNECTIONS: Where was the first arena of religious conflict in sixteent