The Reformation

Question 1

What were Protestants saying about buying indulgences

Answer 1

People like the nobles paid for a free ticket to heaven

Question 2

What were Protestants saying about the wealth of the church

Answer 2

• Peasants had to pay taxes to the church

- Ownes of the church built their own palaces

Question 3

What were Protestants saying about taxes

Answer 3

• really high

- peasants didn’t have any money

Question 4

What were Protestants saying about the bible

Answer 4

• they were only written in Latin

- “ordinary” people weren’t allowed to read it

Question 5

What were the 95 theases?

Answer 5

They are criticisms of the Catholic Church created Martin Luther.

Question 6

Who was Martin Luther?

Answer 6

He was called a heretic by the pope and the religious community (he was a Protestant against the church). Then he was excommunicated by the Pope.

Question 7

What were some of the effects of the reformation

Answer 7

• They were wars in Germany, Netherlands, England and Switzerland between catholics and Protestants
• Elizabeth I orders for her sister—Mary I— to be beheaded as she is a catholic
• Elizabeth I tried to balance out her country
• Spain tried to invade England as they were lots of Protestants
• Gunpowder plot
• Dutch Protestants (neatherlands) rebelled against the Spanish catholic

Question 8

What happened in the reformation?

Answer 8

In the reformation the church split into two, Catholic and Protestant. Many people disagrees with the fact that the church had all the power because of the indulgences, high taxes, they had the most money, the bible was in only one language- Latin so ordinary people couldn’t read and enjoy their OWN religion.