World History › Section Q · The Atlantic world and a global economy › Topic Q.1
The Protestant Reformation
In 1517 a German friar's protest against the sale of indulgences grew into a movement that split western Christianity for good. This topic explains what the reformers taught, why their ideas spread, how the Catholic Church answered, and how religious division fed more than a century of war.
In this topic
- One church, many critics
- Indulgences and Luther's protest
- What Luther taught
- Worked example: why Luther survived when Hus did not
- Zwingli and the Anabaptists
- Calvin and predestination
- England's break with Rome
- The Catholic Reformation
- Augsburg and the wars of religion
- Worked example: reading a Reformation woodcut
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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