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© Teachers’ Curriculum Institute The Spread and Impact of the Reformation 1

What were the effects of the Reformation?

The Spread and Impact of the Reformation

Eastern Orthodox

Methodist

Pentecostal Assembly

United Church of ChristChristianity

Baptist

Anglican

Calvinist

Lutheran

Presbyterian

Episcopal

Church of God

Society of Friends (Quakers)

Anabaptist

Unitarian Universalist

Mennonite

Reformed

Protestant

Roman Catholic

Church of Christ

Latter-Day Saints

Adventist

Christian Scientist

Amish

This diagram shows some of the main branches of Christianity today. Answer the questions below about the diagram on a separate sheet of a paper.

1. What do you see?

2. What are the three main branches of Christianity?

3. Why do you think all the branches

are considered part of Christianity? 4. Find Lutheranism, Calvinism, and

Anglicanism on the diagram. To which larger branch do they belong?

5. Have you seen examples of these different forms of Christianity in your community? In what ways?

6. How do you think Catholic leaders may have reacted to the growing number of Protestant churches in the 15th and 16th centuries?

P R E V I E W



Read Sections 2 through 4. In the corresponding part of the matrix below and on the next page, for each denomination of Christianity, record at least two key ideas about each topic. Then, use a highlighter or marker to highlight details that are similar for each denomination in the matrix, using the same color.

Sections 2 to 4

R E A D I N G N O T E S

Key Content TermsAs you complete the Reading Notes, use these terms in your answers.

Lutheranism Anglicanism absolute monarchyCalvinism Counter-Reformation Puritanstheocracy nationalism

Lutheranism Calvinism Anglicanism

Origins of the Denomination

Beliefs About Sin and Salvation



Lutheranism Calvinism Anglicanism

Beliefs About the Ultimate Source of Authority

Rituals and Worship

Community Life



1. What was the Council of Trent? What did the council do?

2. What was the Society of Jesus?

3. How did the Society of Jesus help strengthen the Catholic Church?

4. What else did the Catholic Church do to stop the spread of Protestantism?

Section 5



1. On the map, use two different colors to shade in the major Protestant areas and those that were Catholic. Create a map key to explain your shading.

Religious Divisions in Europe

2. How did the Reformation plant seeds of democratic ideas?

3. In the chart below, list areas where Catholic and Protestant missionaries traveled after the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.

Section 6

Areas of the World Where Catholic Missionaries Traveled

Areas of the World Where Protestant Missionaries Traveled

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P R O c E S S I N G

Complete the Venn diagram to show the key differences and similarities between Catholic and Protestant churches during the Reformation. List similarities in the overlapping part of the ovals and differences in the parts that do not overlap. Use the list below to guide you.• origins• beliefs about sin and salvation• beliefs about the ultimate source of authority• rituals and worship• community life

Catholicism Protestantism

T I M E L I N E C H A L L E N G E


Timeline SkillsAnalyze the timeline in your book. Also think about what you have learned. Then answer the following questions.

1. How was Brunelleschi able to complete the construction of the cathedral in Florence?

2. What did the pope’s relocation of his headquarters to France signify to many Europeans?

3. What movement occurred in Europe from about the 1300s to the 1600s?

4. Why was Gutenberg’s printing press significant?

5. How long did it take Michelangelo to sculpt David?

6. Name two events in the early 1500s that helped cause the Reformation.

7. What new denomination of Christianity was founded after the publication of Institutes of the Christian Religion?

8. What was the Council of Trent and what was its purpose?

9. What was one result of the Thirty Years’ War?

T I M E L I N E C H A L L E N G E


Critical ThinkingUse the timeline and the lessons to answer the following questions.

10. Identify two ideals of humanists and explain how these ideals affected European thinking.

11. Choose two leading figures of the Renaissance and describe the advances each made in his or her field.

12. Choose two leading figures of the Reformation and explain their significance.

13. If you could add three more events to this timeline, which would they be? List each event, and explain why you think it is important enough to add to the timeline.

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