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[Pages:108]Protestant Reformation

? WHII.3 The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Reformation in terms of its impact on Western civilization by

? a) explaining the effects of the theological, political, and economic differences that emerged, including the views and actions of Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I;

Essential Understandings

? For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church had little competition in religious thought and action.

Essential Understandings

? For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church had little competition in religious thought and action.

? The Catholic church resisted change

Essential Understandings

? For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church had little competition in religious thought and action.

? The Catholic church resisted change ? Because of this, people began to change views on

religion themselves

Essential Understandings

? For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church had little competition in religious thought and action.

? The Catholic church resisted change ? Because of this, people began to change views on

religion themselves ? This led to the Protestant Reformation with new

political and economic institutions.

? Church controlled everything ? Kings were subservient to the church ? The church was corrupt

Conflicts

? The authority of the Catholic Church in Rome was challenged

? Merchants gained great wealth during the Renaissance

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