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Series of wars in France and Spain that fought for the control of the Italian peninsula. The most significant impact of the Italian wars was that they helped expose the rest of Europe to the ideas of the Italian Renaissance. -
Talks about Luther's opposition to what he saw as the Roman Catholic Church's abuse and corruption by Catholic clergy, who were selling indulgences. -
Declaring Luther a rebel, and an enemy of the state, it even permitted anyone to kill Luther without legal consequence. -
The Peasants rebelled because of the high taxes and lack of ower they had. The German peasants stormed the castles and monasteries. -
War between the Swiss protestants and Catholics. -
Anabaptists were people who believed that if you were baptized as a child, you should be rebaptized as an adult. They fled to Munster, Germany. -
Two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that made the English monarchs the head of the Church of England -
First Thomas More refused to take the oath, The Act of Supremacy, so King Henry imprisoned him and then a little while later he was found guilty of high treason and executed. -
John Calvin's Book expressed ideas about God, salvation, and human nature. It was a summary of Protestant theology or religious beliefs. -
The Jesuits founded the three things they focused on, teaching and founding schools, converting non-Catholics, and stopping the spread of Protestantism. -
The purpose of the Inquisitions was to impose religious uniformity, especially on converted Jews and Muslims, and later, on Protestants. The Inquisitions used harsh methods, including torture, to force confessions and punish heresy, or denial of Church teachings. -
This is where catholic bishops and cardinals agreed on several doctrines including, The Church's interpretation of the Bible was final, Christians needed faith and good works for salvation, The Bible and Church tradition were equally powerful authorities, and Indulgences were valid expressions of faith, but weren't allowed to be sold. -
Famous religious settlements were Charles V. and The Protestant princes, who agreed that each ruler would decide the religion of his state. -
Elizabeth 1 set up the Anglican Church, where she was the leader. This was the only legal church in England and it was created to please Protestants and Catholics. -
Because of Jhon Knox's spread of Calvin's works and Presbyterians, Scottland made their official religion Calvinism. -
A really big slaughter of French Protestants by Catholics that lasted 2 months. -
The Edict of Nantes brought an end to the Wars of Religion and granted religious and civil rights to Protestants in France