| A | B |
| He started the Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther (1517) |
| Martin Luther wrote this -starting the Protestant Reformation | 95 Thesis |
| these were sold by the Church to raise money | indulgences |
| priest who went around Brandenburg and tried to sell up indulgences | Johann Tetzel |
| innovation that really spread Luther's ideas | printing press |
| sola fide | faith |
| sola scriptura | read the scriptures |
| simony | abuse in the church of buying offices |
| nepotism | abuse in the church of hiring relatives |
| excommunication | 1521 the Pope did this to Martin Luther |
| Protesting Princes | Protestant =these princes protected Martin Luther (like ideas of no tax and no papal political inferences) |
| Calvinism | John Calvin created this church-predestination |
| Henry VIII | changed the religion of the country to become Protestant so he could get a divorce |
| counter reformation | Catholic response to making some changes |
| Jesuits | missionary wing of the Catholic church |
| Henry II (France) | died in a jousting tournament after signing a treaty that ended the Dynastic wars |
| Francis II | French king who married Mary Queen of Scots |
| Guise | family that Mary put into power (b/c being related to them) while her husband was alive |
| Huguenots | French term for Protestant |
| Charles IX | King of France-took the throne after Francis II death-mother ruled for him b/c too young to take the throne |
| Catherine de'Medici | Florence royalty who married French king Henry II and had lots of kids and ruled for his son Charles IX |
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | 1572-Protestant Henry of Navarre married Catholic, Margaret, to reconcile french wars of religion and Guise family turned into a massacre |
| Henry III | King of France -following death of his brother, Charles IX |
| War of the three Henry's | Henry III, Henry Guise, and Henry of Navarre |
| 1589 | Henry III killed by a fanatic Catholic priest after killing Henry Guise! |
| Henry IV | Henry of Navarre became the king of France and converted to Catholicism |
| Edict of Nantes | 1598 document created by Henry IV who granted religious freedom to Huguenots |