Euro DBQ, Protestant Refor & Spanish Explor

Lucas Cranach

used to be a devout Catholic who would work under noble Catholics (Frederick lll), until he shifted away from Catholicism, becoming a close friend and artist to Martin Luther

Luther as the German Hercules

luther depicted as a hero who killed a beast with nine heads/church men

This directly mocked papal supremacy, transforming them into a powerless, dangling accessory of the Luther

Christopher Columbus's 1493 letter to King Ferdinand

explicitly frames the land as a permanent, revenue-generating colonial settlement rather focusing on spiritual salvation

catalogs the island not as a place for churches— but a resource for European markets

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