Reformation and religious wars

Indulgences

Pardons sold by the Catholic Church to reduce punishment for sin’s

Road to salvation for Protestants

Achieved through faith alone, not good works or Church rituals.

Diet of Worm’s

1521 meeting where Luther refused to recant his beliefs.

Protestant

Christian who broke from the Catholic Church.??

Peace of Augsburg

1555 treaty letting German rulers choose religion.

Council of Trent

Catholic reform meetings countering Protestantism.

Politiques

Leaders who valued peace over religious conflict.

Edict of Nantes

1598 law granting rights to French Protestants.

Thirty Years’ War

Religious and political war in Europe (1618–1648).

Treaty of Westphalia

1648 peace ending the Thirty Years’ War.