Que aspectos de la iglesia católica fueron principios del siglos xvl

The Catholic Church is considered one of the biggest religious and political institutions from its emergence in Roman civilization to the present day. The sixteenth century began in the year 1501 and ended in 1600, were years in which several historians define as the years in which the western civilization developed and more imposed. Mercantilism was the main economic doctrine, while colonialism was the political system. The mercantile doctrine was one of the main causes of encouraging European wars, due to the need for territorial expansion, which would culminate with imperialism then, already in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The Catholic Church gave supported the colonialism through ideas that indigenous people and African descendant should be converted by Catholic beliefs, So they could be considered god's son.