Identify the statement that is false.

Identify the statement that is false.
 
  a. England took little interest in establishing its own overseas colonies in the first half of the 16th century.
  b. English society was disrupted by religious conflict when King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s.
  c. The Protestant Reformation resulted in years of a seesaw of the balance of power between Catholics and Protestants throughout England.
  d. Spain and England were long-time and bitter enemies in the first half of the 16th century.
  e. When Elizabeth ascended to the English throne in 1558, the rivalry with Spain intensified.