Important People
Church Issues
Protestant Teachings
Important Events
Effects
100

This man's 95 Theses started the Reformation

Martin Luther

100

These were sold to people, forgiving their sins and allowing them to get to heaven

Indulgences

100

This was how Lutherans got to heaven

Faith alone ("sola fide")

100

1518: Luther posts these on Halloween

The 95 Theses

100

More people learn to ____ because the Bible is in the vernacular

Read and write

200

This man founded a Protestant church that taught only the "elect" would go to heaven

John Calvin

200

This was published only in Latin, a language only the educated knew

The Bible

200

This was how Calvinists got to heaven

Predestination (God chose them before the beginning of time)

200

1521: Charles V calls Luther to this

The Diet of Worms

200

These rock Europe in the 1500s and 1600s

Wars of Religion

300

This man broke England from the Catholic Church after the Pope denied him a divorce

Henry VIII (the 8th)

300

Priests violated this, which required them to stay single and out of relationships their whole lives

Celibacy

300

The Bible should be published in this

The vernacular (spoken language of the people)

300

1531: Henry VIII divorces her

Catherine of Aragon

300

This replaced religious identity as the most important thing to many people

National identity

400

This man called the Diet of Worms to make Luther stand trial for his Protestant teachings

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (the 5th)

400

The pope was considered this on matters of faith and morals, which clashed with Renaissance popes' behaviors

Infallible (always correct)

400

Calvin believed people were naturally

 Sinful or bad

400

1534: The Act of Supremacy does this

Makes the English monarch head of the Church of England

400

English Calvinists leave because of their disgust for the still-too-Catholic Church of England and go

To the Americas

500

These are the Calvinist churches of Scotland, France, and England

Presbyterian, Huguenots, and Puritans

500

This was called to fix the issues within the Catholic Church

The Council of Trent

500

This should be the only authority in the church

The Bible ("sola scriptura")

500

1545-63: The Catholic Church holds this to solve its problems and address Protestantism

The Council of Trent

500

Questioning the Church and religious teachings leads to a new intellectual period called

The Enlightenment