How Did Most Monarchies Use Religion to Strengthen Their State

question 63

Multiple Choice

How did most monarchies use religion to strengthen their state?

• A) Most confiscated Church property to finance their growing armies and administration.
• B) Most attempted to make religion one of the forces uniting their subjects into a nation.
• C) By separating church and state, monarchies enabled people of different religious beliefs to all pledge allegiance to the same king.
• D) Through prayer, kings were able to overcome their enemies.
• E) Most presented the state as an alternative to the divisiveness of religion.