Christians believed that the first humans were created in the image of God, but that the bad behavior of Adam and Eve brought negative consequences to all humans to this day. During the middle ages there were many holy wars that were aimed at defeating the enemy of Christ. The main reason why Christians fought was to protect the holy land. Fighting also gained them much more power. The Christians conquered lands that would be useful for them to make profit and help with trading.
Despite the fact that they both had hardships, the Massachusetts Bay colony prospered, while the Jamestown colony did not succeed in the end. Jamestown was the first English colony that actually lasted for a long period of time in America. The Virginia Company of London launched the expedition in 1607, they were a group of investors who wanted to come to the “New World” to profit from the mission. Jamestown was not intended to be a place to raise a family, it was mostly a business venture. They did not fish, hunt, or grow crops, which lead to numerous deaths by starvation, they also had several problems with the Native Americans.
How far was the Catholic Church in Germany ripe for reform before 1517? There are many contributing factors as to how ripe the Catholic Church was for reformation, one of these was the corruption of the Church. To the people at the time, priests were incredibly important; they had the responsibility of preventing souls from going to hell and were the only ones who could administer the sacraments which would guarantee salvation. However, usually priests would only do this in exchange for money which led the church to be riddled with abuses as the priests only seemed interested in amassing wealth rather than taking care of their parishioners spiritually. Other abuses included simony, nepotism, pluralism and absenteeism.
The church lost the trust and support of the people first because of the effects of the Crusades which resulted in many difficulties and new ideas and then was unable to provide the answers and services that the people expected during the times of famine and plague. Pope Urban II called for the Crusades during his speech at the council of Clermont. He promised the forgiveness of all sins for the warriors, spoke about atrocities committed by the Saracens against Christians and finally, convinced them that they had to take Jerusalem back because it was their holy city. The response by nobles to his exaggerated accounts was overwhelming. They sold their land to finance their journeys; left their manors unmanaged and took up the cause for faith .
As the people watched the church decay morally through the Renaissance they became more and more worried about what this meant for them in the afterlife. Thus the Reformation was a direct result of a buildup of social, economic, religious, and political problems that manifested itself into a general animosity towards the Catholic Church. The most important figure of the Reformation is without a doubt Martin Luther. Luther created the rally cry that thousands across Europe answered by criticizing the Catholic Churches practices and carrying on the work of other Christian Humanists like Erasmus. We see an example of one of Luther’s critical writings in Document 8.
The Reformation Henry VIII was always looking for new sources of money. His father had become powerful by taking over the nobles' land, but the lands owned by the Church and the monasteries had not been touched. The Church was a huge landowner, and the monasteries were no longer important to economic and social growth in the way they had been two hundred years earlier. In fact they were unpopular because many monks no longer led a good religious life but lived in wealth and comfort. Henry disliked the power of the Church in England because, since it was an international organization, he could not completely control it.
OI: Because of the prosperous soil in the Chesapeake colonies, the economy was agriculturally based. For example, the economy of this region lacked stability because tobacco often exceeded demand. Their economy was strictly dependent on crops. Religion was secondary in the Chesapeake region because most people came to the Chesapeake to farm rather than to escape religious conflicts. Although different in most ways, the colonies both shared a feeling of superiority over the Natives.
The Pope put an interdict on John's lands which meant services couldn't be held in churches, and no weddings or burials could be done. The pope excommunicated King John and when he threatened to do the same to his soldiers, King John gave in. John was a good king in only very few aspects which were that he looked good, had a heir and he kept law and order. Yet in the rest of the jobs he was quite a bad king, for example he only supported the church when it fitted with what he wanted, he also didn't listen to the advice of the barons , another thing was that he collected very high taxes he also didn't lead his army to war and lost all of his wars. One of the important reasons was thing the King was meant to do was to consult his barons, but John only listened to a few favourite mercenary soldiers, not the barons.
It is a fact that people’s religions, when crossed, lead to bloodshed. Some of the most significant were those of the Christian Crusades. The Crusades were during a time of Western European expansion, conquest, and unspeakable atrocities. These wars were fought in the name of God, and to justify their actions they were declared as “Holy Wars”. In the Humanistic Tradition, it states on page 84, “It soon became apparent, however, that the material benefits of the Crusades outweighed the spiritual ones”.
Each and every one of them relied on each other to make the country function the way William wanted it to. The King was in complete control under the Feudal System. He owned all the land in the country and decided who he would lease land to. He therefore only allowed those men he could trust to lease land from him. The men who leased land from the King were known as Barons; they were wealthy, powerful and had complete control of the land they leased from the King.