Question

By the late sixteenth century, the combination of local and imperial claims to authority came under increasing challenge from which two major forces? demographic shifts due to migration from Asia and Africa, as well as religious changes that caused the decline of the Holy Roman Empire religious changes that caused the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as a population explosion due to better food production and disease immunity advances in industry and technology, as well as population decreases due to disease epidemics advances in industry and military technology, as well as religious changes (such as the Protestant Reformation) that caused the decline of the Holy Roman Empire

Answer 1

Correct answer is last option ( Option IV)

This is because Protestan Reformation caused wide-spread violence and spread across nations faster than expected.

Morover, technology shifts in military were more acceraleated. And thus multiple players participating caused hypercompetition and lower prices altogether.

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