GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Henry VIII
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Elizabeth I
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Bloody Mary
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Martin Luther
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Detailed explanation-1: -Once titled “defender” of the Catholic church, Henry’s personal circumstances would drive him to break his Catholic ties and found the Church of England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
Detailed explanation-3: -King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church because under their policies, he was not allowed to divorce his current wife. She was no longer able to give him a male heir and he needed one. He formed the Church of England and divorced his wife.
Detailed explanation-4: -The resulting split divided the European Christian church into two major branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. This split is known as the Great Schism, or sometimes the “East-West Schism” or the “Schism of 1054.”