Colonization and the 15th century

Ok, I hope that by this time you have done a bit of research and answered the questions that I asked you to under ti title "A bit of British history". Therefore, you are supposed to have looked into the figure of Walter Raleigh. Now, what I don´t know is whether you are familiar with all the things that where happening at that time in terms of religion, science, and literature. The period under which the figure of Sir Walter Raleigh followed other explorers of the new world is called Renaissance. In terms of religion, Martin Luther (a german scholar) challenged the principles of the catholic church creating a new version of Christianity called Protestantism. Do you know why? Do you know how that affected Spain? In terms of science, Galileo challenged the principles of the catholic church by stating that it was the earth that turned around the sun, not the other way around. And in terms of literature, as far as English literature is concerned we have the writings of perhaps the most famous English poet in British history: William Shakespeare. Shakespeare will be the link that will take us to the beginning of our book, for the opening lesson has to do with relationships and love. Do you know any of his poems? Here you have one:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.