Why is the English Civil War also called the Puritan Revolution? What is its significance?
The English Civil War is also called the Puritan Revolution because the King's opponents were mainly Puritan, and his supporters chiefly Episcopalian and Catholic.
The war has been seen as not only a conflict between Parliament and the King, but a conflict between the economic interests of the urban middle classes and the traditional economic interests of the Crown. The economic interests of the urban middle classes coincided with their religious (Puritan) ideology while the Crown's traditional economic interests correspondingly allied with Anglican religious belief. The English Civil War overthrew the feudal system in England and shook the foundation of the feudal rule in Europe. It is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history.
