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What were the effects of the Reformation?
The Spread and Impact of
the Reformation
Eastern Orthodox
Methodist
Pentecostal Assembly
United Church of Christ Christianity
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?
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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 Terms
As you complete the Reading Notes, use these terms in your answers.
Lutheranism Anglicanism absolute monarchy
Calvinism Counter-Reformation Puritans
theocracy nationalism
Lutheranism Calvinism Anglicanism
Origins of the
Denomination
Beliefs About
Sin and
Salvation
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Lutheranism Calvinism Anglicanism
Beliefs
About the
Ultimate
Source of
Authority
Rituals and
Worship
Community
Life
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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
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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
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Timeline Skills
Analyze 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 popes 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 Gutenbergs 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?
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Critical Thinking
Use 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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b.
c.