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was created by kings who were trying to gain more power in their kingdom.
This divine right could only be given by God himself.
While a king had this right, he could not be held accountable to his subjects. |
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He was responsible for the 95
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He and his supporters (became known as Protestants) felt that the church had too much
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This act was the beginning of new reformation of religion in Europe. |
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| Queen Elizabeth I was queen from 1558 to 1603, during her time in power, the spanish armada was defeated, and the Mary queen of scotts was executed. She restored protestantism to England, and her reign was marked with prosperity, and wealth. |
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| Sir Walter Raleigh was a legalized pirate, paid by Queen Elizabeth I. He attended the royal court regularly. He was also licenced to travel the seas and sieze ships and cargo, of other countries. |
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| The Reformation of the Catholic Church started in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenburg All Saints church. The reason of the reformation is simply because the church had gained too much power and wealth. |
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| The kings gained supreme authority, when the Divine Right of Kings was created, and when all of the nobles were out of their Administration. When these things happened; The kings took religious authority and The kings took supreme authority. |
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| The leader of a kingdom, and after the protesting, the one with SUPREME Authority. The kings make laws and keep the peace. |
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| Serfs were tied to the land, if the land was given to someone else, the serfs stayed with the land, they were normal citezens exept with almost no rights. And they formed the lowest social class of the feudal society. Later after the reformation, they became tenant farmers. |
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| After the feudal times when the church no longer ruled the king, and the king had supreme authority, he got rid of his nobles, for he no longer needed them to supply his armies, instead, he taxed the Middle Class to pay for mercenaries, who were really good at fighting. (i.e professional) |
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| The protestants were people whom opposed the church, they thought the church had too much wealth and power. The first protestant who had the readiness to oppose the church, was, you guessed it, Martin Luther, he nailed his ninety five theses to the door of an All Saints church(i.e read the one about Martin Luther). |
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| Sir Francis Drake was the first English explorer to go all the way around earth by boat. He also succeeded in helping England to defeat the Spanish armada. and cats dogs and others. |
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| The Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church, and is based in the Vatican in Rome, he also had extreme power during the feudal times, but after that, during and after the Reformation he lost most of his power. |
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| This refers to the ENOURMOUS amount of wealth and decoration of all the churches. Martin Luther was the first to voice his complaints about this in his Ninety Five Theses that started the Reformation. The Protestants opposed the churches enourmous wealth and decoration greatly. |
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| A Roman Catholic, is a member of the catholic church, and is a follower of the Bible and its many teachings. Some of the reformers were still followers of the Bible and its teachings, but did not believe in what it had become, with its wealth and power. |
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| Taxes are a form of gaining money for either the church(during the feudal age). Or a government(King, after the Reformation) The great taxing of the middle class is what paid for the kings professional armies. |
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| Maize and Potatoes were brought to Europe, around when the exploring, and Agriculture was being used for the first times. Maize is a form of Corn, and Potatoes are a form of Nightshade. They did not exist in Europe until explorers left and brought back foreign goods. |
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| The word of god is the bible, the word of god is his will and what he wants us to do, and learn, back in Feudal times everyone in Europe, followed the word of god. |
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| In 1500 the population began to rise, at an alarming pace, this was largely due to the great advances in agricultural production, less farmers could now feed more people. So for the families, it became cheaper for them |
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| Law making fell under the category of the king. He had to deal with enforcing the law. The middle class paid taxes for the army to enforce the law. |
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The process of strip farming requires to have land cut into small strips, with one farmer to tend to one of the many.
Strip farming in the Middle Ages was not very productive, because the land was cut too small, so each strip farm wasnt big enough to produce big enough amounts of crops. |
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| After the reformation, explorers started looking out at sea for interesting things, they found the americas. The americas are North America and South America. Back during and after the reformation, people were just starting to explore to the New World, which became known as the Americas. |
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| There was a huge increase in trade followed out of continent exploration,triggered a dramatic change in Europe's economy. Another change happened in the 16th and 17th centuries when Europe's countries made permanent settlements in North America and South America. |
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| In 1517 the protestant revolution begins in England, trade from china begins to flow to Europe, and the Turkish people conquer Egypt. |
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| After the reformation and the exploration, Europe's countries started to create permanant settlements in North America and South America. |
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Many serfs were tenant farmers, a tenant farmer was someone who pays to use the land of someone else.
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An empire, is a series of countries and states, compiled under one government, the Roman Empire is a great example of an empire because they ruled an extremely large amount of land. Europe had established many empires, particularly in North America.
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| the middle class primarily contained land owners and prosperous merchants. The middle class formed because, of the increase in trade routes around the world. |
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| The Portuguese and Spanish explorers had very good navigation skills and they helped open up the new world, (The Americas). |
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| Martin Luther helped Reform the Roman Catholic Church. He thougt that the Church had gained too much power and wealth. Other reformers followed and became known as Protestants. |
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These were nailed to the door of the All Saints Church in Wittenburg. They complaints about some of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church, sparking the begginning of the reformation.
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| The reformation of the Church and the growing power of the Kings |
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| The reformation of the church had begun the moment Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the wittenberg All Saints Church, and with the Reformation, and the Church in turmoil, the kings went to grab religious power within their kingdoms. Before the reformation the kings were no more powerful then their feudal nobles. But after the reformation, the kings had supreme power, and appointed people from the middle class instead of the former nobles. They also began to pay for professional armies, the kings had also gained god given virtues, such as law-making, and lead to the theory of the Divine Kights of Kings. |
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| A prosperous new era of agriculture, trade and settlement |
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| The trade had improved with the exploring, because the explorers had found other places to trade with. The prosperous new era, great advances in agriculture, trade and settlement, with all these advances, many things that would not be available to the Middle Class, such as Books, once only for rich people after the printing press, for everyone who could afford the book. With the advances in agriculture, less farmers could now feed more people, making food cheaper than it was. |
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