Reformation and Religious Wars Study Guide
BE SURE TO LOOK AT BOTH SIDES OF THIS HANDOUT!!!!!!!!
Document Based Question (DBQ)-100 points:
 Read/review Barron’s book pages 21 to 32 (section on how to write a DBQ)
 Read/review textbook pages 435 to 438 (The Great European Witch-Hunt) and
pages A2-A3 (information on how to write a DBQ).
Multiple Choice Test-100 points:
 See chapter 14 in textbook, all notes, assignments, and handouts. Be sure to
read the Barron’s book part 2, chapter 2.
 Be prepared to analyze quotes and a map.
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Topics:
Reformation
 Causes and effects
 First began…(Location)
 Social impact
 Major tenets of Lutheranism
 Reasons why it spread so rapidly
 Experience and beliefs of the Anabaptists
 Purpose of the Jubilee Indulgence
 The medieval church taught that salvation was the result of…
 Doctrine of Predestination
 Beliefs of Protestant reformers
 Protestantism’s connection to Capitalism
 Knox & beliefs
 Calvin & beliefs
 Zwingli & beliefs
Counter Reformation/Catholic Reformation
 Ignatius Loyola
 Catholic Church’s response to Reformation
 Ursuline Order
 Baroque best expressed…
 Reforms of the Council of Trent
Germany
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Luther & beliefs (including his political conservatism)
Peasant revolt
Political condition of German states
95 Theses and On Christian Liberty
By 1600, the German population was what religion?
The Hapsburgs
 How did they become so powerful?
 Charles V
 What did Charles V’s empire include? Describe the empire politically.
Where did the Hapsburgs control?
England
 Henry VIII and his wives
 Henry VIII dissolved the monarchies because…
 Why did the Church of England form? (Why did Henry VIII break from
Rome?)
 Mary I of England was unpopular because…
 Elizabethan Settlement
France
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Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
“Paris is worth a Mass”
In order to pay for the Habsburg-Valois Wars…
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Many nobles used Calvinism as a way to…
Spain/ The Dutch/ The Netherlands
 Spain’s dream of a world empire was undermined by…
 Spanish Armada
 Dutch revolt against Spain and the purpose of the Union of Utrecht
 Why was the Dutch Republic commercially dominant?
 The Duke of Alva…(action towards Netherlands)
Witch-Hunts
 Hypotheses in regards to the causes of the great witch-hunts of the
16th & 17th century
 Why did witchcraft persecutions decline at the end of the 17th century?