development of a modern social order‚ but the reformation of religion throughout time that has changed the world. In the early sixteenth century‚ a storm was brewing‚ a storm that would forever change the world. This perfect storm was the protestant reformation. The protestant reformation was headed by catholic monk named Martin Luther; Luther began the reformation when he could no longer tolerate the corruption in the Roman Catholic church. The protestant reformation was caused by a variety of corruptions
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The Protestant reformation caused a big stir in regards to the social order and discussions of Europe for centuries; although‚ it is important to remember that the reformation did not affect Europe the same way across the continent. In some areas‚ governments supported religious toleration as a means to maintain internal stability‚ while in some areas Protestants were marked as heretics and dispatched in various fashions. In Document 1‚ for example‚ the theologian discusses the behavior of his
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Protestant Reformation The Protestant Reformation took place in Germany in the 16th century. During this time‚ Roman Catholic Church had a lot of power‚ and a priest called Martin Luther noticed their abuse of power. He decided to show people how the church was abusing of its power. He started by criticizing the sale of indulgences‚ and how priests‚ cardinals and even the Pope did not follow the teachings of the Bible. To criticize the Church‚ Luther wrote the 95 Theses and translated the Bible
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construction of St. Peter’s Basilica‚ Martin Luther started a reformation that sparked a split within the Church. Soon Luther’s preachings began to spread across Europe‚ amassing a myriad of followers. Simultaneously‚ a Frenchmen named John Calvin began to preach his beliefs about Christianity‚ accumulating a plethora of subscribes. Individually‚ and along with a plethora of other factors‚ they laid the building blocks of the Protestant Reformation.
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Unit 2 DBQ: Discuss the extent to which the religious schism during the sixteenth century was symptomatic of political‚ social‚ and economic problems. The religious schism took place in the 16th century‚ mainly between the Catholic Church and Protestants. During these times‚ many changes were brought forth to Europe during this schism. Although the religious schism brought forth an age of Reformation of the Catholic church‚ the religious schism started wars‚ revolts across Germany following
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essay I am going to talk about a few things.A few things i’m going to talk about is the protestant reformation‚counter reformation‚and the english reformation.I will also be touching on Martin Luther‚the war of religions ‚and I will be talking about the catholic church.I will be putting mostly fact and not many opinions.One opinion i’m going to put in now is that I don’t like history. The protestant reformation lasted from 1517-1648.It started with Martin Luther when he was studying the bible as his
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European era? There were countless political‚ social and economic events that unfolded in the Middle Ages that could be said to be the roots of the Modern European Era...; such as the Black Death‚ the Hundred Years’ War‚ the Great Schism‚ the Reformation of the Church‚ peasant rebellions‚ so on and so forth. However‚ most all of these events were the seeds of broader effects. They brought on such values as Capitalism‚ Nationalism‚ Humanism‚ the rise of the middle class. The events early events in
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The Protestant Reformation began because people had different opinions on how the Church should be run. These people gained followers and began spreading their ideas with the rest of Christianity. Martin Luther was the initial founder of the Reformation; shortly after his ideas were posted‚ he obtained followers and his new church began to grow rapidly. Shortly after Luther‚ many other reform groups were created with different beliefs on how the Church is meant to be organized and how Christianity
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Daji‚ Shay Final Exam‚ Question #1 HIST 151‚ Spring 2015 Word Count: 1498 May 2nd 2015 Factors Precipitating the Inevitability of the Protestant Reformation In 1517‚ a single friar collapsed thousands of years of religious unity‚ undermining the power of the Roman Catholic Church‚ an institution that held religious authority over the majority of the Western world. Martin Luther‚ the son of a miner‚ published a document titled The Ninety-Five Theses that challenged the selling of indulgences as a
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From the time Christianity began to the time of the Protestant Reformation‚ for about a millennium and a half‚ there was only one sect of Christianity: Catholicism. After the Protestant Reformation‚ however‚ different Christian denominations sprang up in many parts of Europe. The Protestant Reformation’s beginning is most commonly associated with Martin Luther’s beliefs and his protest of the wrongdoings of the Catholic Church. Before the Reformation‚ the Catholic Church was more interested in raising
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