HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term Protestant comes from the name given some (German princes) who protested against joining forces with the pope against Luther’s ideas. In England, the king was declared to be the head of the (Lutheran church). What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More ? Luther protested the practice of selling indulgences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Theocracy. What is a meeting of German princes that Martin Luther was called to? Diet. What is the idea that God has already determined who will be saved? Predestination.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why do you think some of the German Princes supported the Pope while others supported Luther? Some princes supported the Pope because they were already strong Catholics. ome princes supported Luther because they thought at if they supported Luther, they thought they wouldn’t have to pay extra money to the Church.
Detailed explanation-4: -His “95 Theses, ‘’ which propounded two central beliefs-that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds-was to spark the Protestant Reformation.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1516 the statesman and scholar Thomas More published a work describing an ideal island state – he called it Utopia. The name derives from the Greek but has a double meaning ‘eutopia’ (good place) or ‘outopia’ (no place).