Reformation

Question 1

What does reform mean

Answer 1

To make changes to something in order to improve it

Question 2

Whats simony

Answer 2

Allowing people to to pay to become priests or other posistions in the church. Priests were ofteen willing to accept bribes.

Question 3

Whats nepotism

Answer 3

Appointing relatives to church positions even if they didnt deserve them

Question 4

Whats plurasim

Answer 4

Priests would often preside over multiple parishes to increase wealth

Question 5

Whats absenteesim

Answer 5

Many priests were absent from their parish for long periods of time. This ment that people could not go to mass or receive sacraments

Question 6

What was selling indulgences

Answer 6

These were special prayers to get into heaven more quickly. People bought them before they sinned, or even for people who already died

Question 7

Whats heresy

Answer 7

Going against the catholic chuch

Question 8

What’s justification by faith alone?

Answer 8

Only god could get someone into heaven

Question 9

Talk about prince henry the navigator

Answer 9

Prince Henry, the navigator set up a school of navigation Sagres, Portugal where he focused on finding the way around Africa to Asia the Portuguese spent the middle part of the 15th century exploring the West Coast of Africa setting up faces there to trade with the native there for gold and for spice in 1487 Vasco de Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa now called the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. Bartholomew set up set sale from Europe around Africa to unreached Asia where he arrived in Calico India