Re: Religion
I think religion should treated as natural disaster in this era, a bit like the inquisitors in M2TW. If it appears you get strife, rebellions and your cultural and technological development is slowed down.
It's the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason!
Though in reality it never went away and played its usual baleful role in instigating major bloodshed.
It is worth noting that for example in India the British ruled with relatively few troops by leaving social and political structures alone as much as possible. It was only when they got all "onwards christian soldiers" in the Victorian age that missionaries really started to appear in India. At about which time the Indian Mutiny happened - go figure.
In Quebec, the Brits left well alone and things ticked over nicely without major interruptions.
Whereas in Ireland where they interferd drastically in society and religion it all went wrong from the start.
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