The Roman Catholic Church was the first to grab Western Europe and make it its own. The Roman Catholic Church killed or ostracized those who didn’t believe in Catholism. Catholism was spread in the Roman Empire and remained in Western Europe giving the Church more power following the fall of Rome. The Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, assumed power over Western Europe and transformed from solely a religious figure to both a religious and political one. The Pope led a similar role to the Roman Emperor; he led wars, controlled taxes, gave others power, and gave out land.
However on his death, Catholicism returned to England in the form of Mary I. With King Phillip II of Spain as her husband, she brutally forced Catholicism back into England, even burning 300 Protestants at the stake. So once Mary’s reign was over, Elizabeth was forced into a country that was in a state of religious flux with varying religious group all vying to
The Spanish began to crush the Southwest Indians military, enslave and Christianize them. The Spanish in an act of intolerance began to establish churches and missions in New Mexico to convert local Indians. Slavery continued until Popes rebellion in 1680 leading to more violence and bloodshed. The Spanish used religion and justification for enslavement and exploitation as well as for the destruction of the Indians cultures. This made religious centers of the Spanish a main target for the
Appointed as Grand Inquisitor was a monk named Tomas de Torquemada. He was in charge of helping Spain get rid of all heresy. Although the main purpose for the Inquisition was to get rid of all the Jews from Spain, it kept proceeding long after the Jews were gone in 1492. Jews that had not yet converted to Christianity by 1492 were thrown out of Spain by the Alhambra Decree. Unconverted Muslims suffered the same fate in 1502.
Carly Campbell Dr. Devanney Honors European History February 1, 2010 King Henry VIII and the Break from the Catholic Church During the 1500s, Martin Luther started the Reformation movement. This event spread all over Western Europe and led to the division of the Catholic Church. As a result many countries, such as England, formed new churches and revised Christian doctrine. King Henry VIII was responsible for the break from the Catholic Church in England. King Henry VIII was the second Tudor monarch and came to the English throne in 1509.
Ariel Lagares Prof. Nathan Melson December 4, 2014 History 314 The First Crusade entails the brutal, violent victimization of the Franco-German (Ashkenazic) Jews by the Western European Christians known as the Crusaders. Shmuel brings forth a vast amount of questions such as, “What were the reasons for these Christian men and women to victimize the European Jews?”, “How and why Urban’s speech played a role in the carnage?”, among others. He uses a wealth of contemporary Hebrew and Latin accounts such as the anonymous Annalista Saxo, Guilbert de Nogent, Robert the Monk and others, to further explain the questions of this stark event during the early Medieval Period for Jews and Christians. Shepkaru’s thesis can be described as Crusaders attacking the Jewish populace in their communities in places like Cologne, Worm and all throughout Rhineland as a
It was also seemed as opposition to roman rule. So then rulers also used Christians as scapegoats for political and economic troubles. For example the emperor Nero was blamed for a disastrous fire in Rome, he said Christians were responsible fire in Rome and were ordered to be persecuted. The emperors after Nero did not continue the persecution. Later on as the pax romana began to crumble the romans executed Christians for refusing to worship roman gods.
The two groups went to war and the Native Americans targeted and killed many priests. - The New World challenged and changed the religious faiths the first European settlers brought to it. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic of the Spanish Franciscan friars who came to convert them, ultimately exploding in violent rebellion. 2. Role of missionaries in the encounter between Native Americans and Colonists Missionaries came to save heathen souls.
They were determined to reestablish Roman Catholicism throughout her realm. Mary married Philip of Spain shortly later, and the persecution of the Protestants began. The churchmen fled to Germany and Geneva to escape from her wrath. Nearly 300 men and women were burnt at the stake. Cranmer was imprisoned in London but was then sent to Oxford and sentenced to undergo ceremonies to indicate that he no longer held office in the church.
American History, A Survey. Edited by Emily Barrosse. Madison : McGraw Hill, 2007. Werstein, Irving. 1898:The Spanish-American War.