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| 3425882039 | Church Corruption | Worldliness of church (pope involved in politics, and making a lot of money, not spiritually like they should be) & practices of Simony (buying and selling of offices), pluralism (to many jobs for one pope) →, absenteeism (pope sending others to do their jobs), nepotism (appoint relatives for high positions) | 0 | |
| 3425891602 | Selling of Indulgences | Made people believe the Church was corrupt, Martin Luther was very concerned with this. By making a monetary contribution to the church, a penitent would receive a partial indulgence not to commit further sins, while at the same time, diminishing the time period that he/she was to suffer in purgatory for remission of his sins. | 1 | |
| 3425910991 | Ninety-Five Theses | Written in 1517 and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, , and the sale of indulgences. Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses, which he had composed in Latin and German (so the common people could read it), on the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg. |  | 2 |
| 3425933905 | Trial for Heresy | Held before Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. Luther bravely defended his written attacks on orthodox Catholic beliefs and denied the power of Rome to determine what is right and wrong in matters of faith. Luther provided the impetus for the Reformation, that divided Europe into two regions, one Protestant and one Catholic, and that would set the scene for religious wars that would continue for more than a century, not ending until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 | 3 | |
| 3425929926 | The Peasant Revolt | 1524-1525; peasants wanted more political and social reforms so they turned to Luther; Luther sympathized with peasants but did not sanction political change through violence; He supported suppression of the revolt by princes |  | 4 |
| 3426065841 | Katherine von Bora | Luther's wife; they married when she was 26 and him 42. Considered a happy marriage-- she did the household duties but didn't fear scolding her husband for being too generous. Six kids. This traces the first indication that a women could, in the future, be of equal status- this was an improvement in the stature of women. |  | 5 |
| 3426079341 | Translation of Bible to German | Luther was not the first, but by far the greatest translator of the German Bible. There are more accurate versions for scholars but none that can rival Luther's for popular authority and use. |  | 6 |
| 3426102194 | Use of Printing Press | In January 1518, the Ninety Five Theses were translated into German, then printed and copied. Within two weeks, copies of the Theses had spread throughout Germany. Within six weeks of that, the Theses had been copied across Europe. Luther's writings reached France, England and Italy by 1519. This greatly increased the notoriety of Martin Luther, and it made many other people across Europe protest the ecclesiastical structure of the Catholic Church. |  | 7 |
| 3426147029 | Lutheran Church | Established in 1530 by Martin Luther in Germany, after confirmation of the Augsburg Confession. |  | 8 |
| 3426151553 | Protestant Church | Began after breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church following Martin Luther's '95 Theses'. Don't believe in Purgatory/Indulgences, Saints/Mary weren't important, Baptism/Communion were just symbols | 9 | |
| 3426618172 | Protestant Motto | Sola Fide = Faith Alone; Faith was all that was needed to save a person; it was a back to basics approach to redemption |  | 10 |
| 3426660941 | Protestant Work Ethic | All work is holy and equal before God; if you work hard you will be rewarded with heaven (does NOT need to be church work) |  | 11 |
| 3426698159 | Democracy | All believers are equal before God; this led to equality under the law; democracy |  | 12 |
| 3426707868 | The Bible | Relied upon for religious matters; led to public schools so people could learn to read (the Bible); law established green space and schools |  | 13 |
| 3426732927 | Home & Family Life | Were both sacred; led the English to colonize America as families; French & Spanish came as unmarried soldiers |  | 14 |
