Church Problems
The religious leader who held great authority in Catholic Europe.
Who is the pope?
The German reformer who challenged the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
The movement that divided Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant groups.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This model places Earth at the center.
What is the geocentric model?
This document challenged the sale of indulgences and other Church practices.
What are the Ninety-Five Theses?
The practice of selling important Church positions.
What is simony?
Luther published this list of criticisms in 1517.
What are the Ninety-Five Theses?
Luther received this punishment at the Diet of Worms.
What is being declared a heretic or outlaw?
This model places the Sun at the center.
What is the heliocentric model?
This technology made it possible to produce many copies of Luther’s writings.
What is the printing press?
Giving Church positions or special treatment to family members.
What is nepotism?
This invention helped Luther’s ideas spread rapidly.
What is the printing press?
This Catholic Church meeting responded to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This is the method that scientists use to help test out their theories
This event was the Catholic Church’s attempt to correct abuses while also defending Catholic teachings against Protestant ideas.
What is the Council of Trent?
These were sold with the promise of reducing punishment in purgatory.
What are indulgences?
Luther translated the Bible into this language.
What is German?
This destructive religious conflict lasted from 1618 to 1648
What is the Thirty Years’ War?
Who would be the first to come up with the Heliocentric Theory
Nicholaus Copernicus
What happened to Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms
He was deemed as a heretic
A Church leader buys his position, gives a job to his brother, and sells documents promising reduced punishment in purgatory. Identify all three Church abuses.
What are simony, nepotism, and the selling of indulgences?
Explain two reasons Luther’s ideas spread successfully throughout Europe.
The printing press produced many copies of his writings, and translating the Bible into German allowed ordinary people to read and understand it.
The Reformation encouraged people to read and do this for themselves.
What is interpret religious teachings or question traditional authority?
Compare the contributions of Copernicus and Galileo to the heliocentric model.
Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model, while Galileo used a telescope and observations to provide evidence supporting it.
What are the two different Christian religions that happened because of the protestant reformation?
Protestant, Catholicism