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The Protestant Reformation Notes

 
1. What were some of John Wycliffe’s Ideas?  

2. What were some of Jan Hus’s Ideas? 

3. What were some of Erasmus’s Ideas? 

4. Why is the Printing Press important?  

5. What was the Protestant Reformation?  

6. What were some of the complaints people had against the church?  

7. Why did Pope Leo X start selling indulgences? 

8. What were indulgences?  

9. Why could most people not read the Bible?  

10. How did people know what the Bible said?  

11. Who was Martin Luther? 

12. Why did Luther write the 95 Theses?  

13. What were some of the things they criticized?  

14. What was the difference between Luther's idea of salvation and the Catholic Church's? 

15. Luther believed that what was the sole authority of Christianity? What did the church believe? 

16. Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther? What is excommunication? 

17. Why are the people who agreed with Luther called Protestants? 

18. What was the Diet of Worms? 

19. Did Luther do what the Diet wanted him to do?  

20. Where did Luther go after the Diet of Worms?  

21. What are Luther's followers called?  

22. How did Charles V try to stop the spread of Protestantism?  

23. What was the compromise that the German Princes & Holy Roman Empire reached?  

24. Write down the story of King Henry VIII: 

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25. What was the Reformation Parliament?  

26. People in England had to take an oath declaring whom as the head of the church?  

27. Besides breaking away from the Catholic church to create The Church of England, what were the 
long lasting effects of King Henry VIII’s reign?