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    world changed. An uprise began to reform the church. Heretic groups started protesting against Catholicism. The Catholic clergy was uneducated and the priests would not follow their own teachings. The Protestant Reformation was the break up of the Catholic Church. The reason the Protestant Reformation occurred was because of heresy and critics of the Roman Catholic Church. The heretics and critics of the church called the Catholics out on their wrongdoings and wanted a change. They knew that Catholicism

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    progressed since the sixteenth-century‚ the meaning and reasoning for fashion has remained the same. The main reasons for needing fashion are for protection‚ individuality‚ identification‚ and representation. By the sixteenth-century‚ the recently developed printing press was turning out books that were used to give other places around the world the experience of this “fashion.” Styles worn in Italy in the early sixteenth-century showed similarities to Northern Europe in the thirteenth-century.

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    the Protestant Reformation HIST 101 American Military University Kristin Sawicki The Protestant Reformation began in Wittenberg Germany in October of 1517 with Martin Luther who was a German Augustinian Monk. Martin Luther criticized the Roman Catholic Church feeling the church had lost its way and openly accused them of corruption and false teachings by posting a document he authored called the “95 Theses”. Martin Luther was the first to stand

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    The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious change that in return it also caused a cultural change that occurred because of Martin Luther. He thought that the pope had too much power and Luther had many disagreements with the Catholic Church. Martin wrote 95 Theses on the university’s chapel door. Luther was then excommunicated from the church Luther was then not wanted in the Diet Of Worms and on his way out was kidnapped. Martin found out that he was just being safely imported to

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    3: SETTLING THE NORHTERN COLONIES‚ 1619-1700 I. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism In 1517‚ Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. Luther had several explosive ideas including… The Bible alone was the source of God’s word (not the Bible and the Church or pope). People are saved simply by faith in Christ alone (not by faith and good works). His actions ignited the Protestant Reformation. John Calvin preached Calvinism which stressed “predestination”

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    Martin Luther was a key figure in the movement‚ for he started the Protestant Reformation. Luther was born in the Holy Roman Empire. His father wanted him to become a lawyer‚ and his father took him to a different school. But he went to college after that school and learned philosophy‚ astronomy‚ geometry‚ and arithmetic. Then one day he was walking around‚ and a thunderstorm came‚ and almost got stuck by lightning; he said it was a sign from God and said he would become a monk. Instead of continuing

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    Discuss the reasons for‚ and consequences of social and economic groupings of nations. In this current generation exists a range of major trade blocks‚ for example: ASEAN – consisting of countries such as Laos‚ Malaysia and Singapore. However one of the most well known Trade blocs in the world today is the EU‚ which currently links together 27 countries. The reason as to which countries want to form these alliances with other countries is as they want to stimulate their economic growth via

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    We begin during the Protestant Reformation. During this time Martin Luther started to protest against the church. Many people became his followers and supporters. Luther began to make his own denomination called the lutherans. Most of this began with his 95 theses‚ which he posted to the front door of the church. He managed to get away with all of this and skip the consequence of heresy. The Protestant Reformation was ultimately the breakdown of the Catholic Church. Then the people of the church

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    In reaction to the Protestant Reformation‚ Catholicism underwent a major reawakening. The Catholic Counter Reformation was sparked with the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent consisted of religious authority figures and scholars. Some members of the council wished for moderate reform and others desired to focus on tradition doctrine; the latter won. Because of this‚ the Pope is recognized as the most supreme individual‚ churches were to interpret scripture‚ and confidence in the Catholic religion

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    Lecture 2. THE REFORMATION Recap: • Political organisation: and development of Renaissance monarchies‚ move towards centralised orgnans of administration‚ expanded bureaucracies‚ use of media to burnish image of rulers • Renaissance: individualism‚ man as autonomous moral agent‚ capacity to do good or evil • Society: large percentage‚ subsitance existance. Much more space for the divine than today • History as relationship with the past: the process of our own interaction with the pas as

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