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The Expansion of Christianity Chapter 14L3 Page 479

Impact of Missionaries

missionary –a person who goes to foreign countries to do religious work convert –to adopt a different religion

missionary a person who travels to a foreign country in order to do religious work

convert to persuade a person to adopt a new religion or belief

Catholic Efforts Church relied on religious orders to do missionary work –Franciscans –Dominicans –Jesuits

Religious Orders as Missionaries Franciscans –mendicant order lived by begging, didn’t own anything Dominicans –started by St. Dominic –jointed Spanish and Portuguese voyages Jesuits –send missionaries from its beginning –went to Europe, Asia, African and the Americas

Protestant Missionaries spread by settlers NOT religious orders exceptions –Dutch East India Company –Puritans John Eliot and Roger Williams

Responses to Christian Missions

Missionaries in Asia Europeans wanted direct trade route to Asia Missionaries traveled with them to Asia They weren’t very successful

Catholic Missionaries in the Americas Portuguese –Brazil French –Great Lakes Area (United States)

Catholic Missionaries in the Americas Portuguese –Brazil French –Great Lakes Area (United States) Spanish –Large areas of the Americas

Protestant Missionaries in the Americas settled in Virginia also in New England Catholics controlled more territory and had many more native people convert

Legacy of the Reformation

More Religious Wars fighting between Catholics and Protestants Peace of Westphalia –the treaty recognizing permanent division of Western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations Catholic Countries Protestant Countries FranceEngland SpainHolland Italy Prussia (Germany) Portugal

Protestantism and Democracy some Protestant practices led to democracy –Presbytery-allowed followers to help run churches –covenant (agreement)-led to idea that people could voluntarily join together to form church this idea was later applied to government Mayflower Compact

covenant a binding agreement

Federalism Federalism –the sharing of power between an organization and its members Idea of sharing power may have influenced the U.S. Constitution

federalism the sharing of power between an organization or government and its members

Peace of Westphalia an agreement reached in A.D. 1648, which recognized the permanent division of western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations and ended many ongoing religious wars

Peace of Westphalia an agreement reached in A.D. 1648, which recognized the permanent division of western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations and ended many ongoing religious wars Catholic Countries Protestant Countries FranceEngland SpainHolland Italy Prussia (Germany) Portugal