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The European world of sixteenth century had encountered revolutionary changes in its society and its obstinate Christian religion. By this time the Catholic Church was extremely corrupted that its spiritual leaders, the popes were far away from their religion and holy duty, and did nothing but indulging themselves in fortune and fame. Consequently the literate people such as humanists in the society and Protestants, who felt their religion has become wrong and pathetic, thought of and aroused the reformation. There were huge radical movements of those people to reform their Christian society and religion all around the European territories; secularization, which is the process of converting from religious to civil that develops a variety of activities outside the sphere of religion has appeared. There are intellectual, political, and religious factors that inspired the religious revolution. As economy of the European world has grown, trade with other countries occurred. Merchants earned a great amount of money and formed the new middle class. These rich people had enough money to teach their children and also the children had to learn to keep the industry. In the process