1. Warm Up!!!
What was the Protestant Reformation? Who started it and how?
Who was King Henry VIII? What church did he start and why?
If you were a leader of the Catholic Church, and all of your followers were leaving the church for Protestantism, what would you do to stop them? Why?

2. Did YOU Know?!?
The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year!!
And…to gross you out even further…
The average American eats 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year!!

3. The Catholic (Counter) Reformation
Introduction
Most people in Spain, France, And Italy remained Catholic
Closer to the Pope
To counter the Protestants, the Catholics attempted to reform their own church
Spain
France
Italy

4. Reforming Catholicism
To compete with the Protestant religion, the Catholic church attempted to regain power by:
Reforming indulgence sales
Creating the Jesuit order (missionaries)
Beginning the Inquisition
Enforcing Catholic Church doctrine by any means necessary
Called Council of Trent

5. Actions of the Council of Trent:
Revised basic Church principles
The church’s interpretation of the Bible is the final word, all others is heresy
Salvation comes through faith and good works, not faith alone
Biblical and church traditions were equally important
Indulgence sales were legitimate, but could not be abused!

6. Catholicism!! Spread of Catholicism
Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits to spread Catholicism
Missionaries who sought to teach and convert
Set up schools
Converted non- Christians
Tried to stop the spread of Protestantism
Catholicism!!

7. Did YOU Know…Continued!
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

8. A Divided Europe Protestant! Catholic!! Introduction
After the Reformation and Catholic Reformation, Europe was not unified under the Catholic Church.
Divided Europe into Protestant North and Catholic South
Protestant!
Catholic!!

9. A Divided Germany Hapsburgs Support… Peace of Augsburg
Allowed German princes to establish their region’s religion
Hapsburg family, a ruling family in Germany, decided to continue to support the Catholic Church.
Princes in Northern Germany decided to make their land’s religion Protestantism.
Ends the authority of the Pope
Hapsburgs Support…

10. Inbred Hapsburgs!?!

11. = Northern Europe Favored Protestantism
Princes had more power because they were not controlled by the Pope.
Were not obligated to send money or support to the Pope.
Protestant =

12. Conflicts in France
The 30 Years War began as a religious battle between Catholics and Protestants.
Cardinal Richelieu transformed the war from religious to political.
These wars resulted in the Edict of Nantes
Granted religious freedom to Huguenots (French Protestants)