Guided Notes – The Printing Press
Today’s Topic: Explain the impact of the printing press on the
Reformation in Europe
Life before the Printing Press
• Books were written out ____________________________
• Mainly by ________________ in __________________
• It could take one person ________________________ or longer to write out
a book, word for word, page by page
• Written text was _______________________ in Medieval Europe
• Most people were ____________________________
• If a book was to survive, it had to be _________________ over and over!
The Printing Press
• Invented by ______________________________
• Invented in the year _______________________
• Johann Gutenberg took a ________________________, transformed it into
a printing press, and mixed ______________________ together to make ink.
• In 1456, he made 180 copies of the first printed book:
__________________________
• Books were now more ____________________________
• Literacy rates _________________________________________________
• The ideas of the ___________________________ could now be spread
easily!
Guided Notes – The Reformation
Today’s Topic 1: Identify the major causes and major effects of the
Reformation.
Today’s Topic 2: Explain the political, intellectual, artistic, economic, and
religious impact of the reformation.
Causes of the Reformation
• Cause #1 – The 100 years’ War between ____________ and
____________.
• Cause #2 – The __________________________.
 These two events cause people to ____________________________.
• Cause #3 – _____________________________________________
 People began to question __________ and the _____________.
• Cause #4 – ________________________ in the Catholic Church
 Specifically, the selling of _______________________.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
•
Prior to the Reformation, all Christians were ______________________.
•
The reformation was an attempt to _______________ the Catholic Church.
•
People like ______________________________ wanted to get rid of the
___________________________ and restore people’s _______________ in
the __________________.
• In the end the reformers, like Luther, established their own ______________
of __________________________.
• The Reformation caused a _______________ in Christianity with the
formation of these new Protestant ______________________.
Look on Pages 169-172 of the Jarrett Book to fill in the following Chart.
Reformer
Conflict with
Church
Ideas about
Government
Principle
ideas
Martin
Luther
John
Calvin
Henry VIII
The Reformers
 Martin Luther
•
Lived from 1483 – 1546 in ___________________
•
His Father encouraged him to study _____________.
•
A sudden religious experience inspired him to become a __________.
• He became troubled at the possibility of not going to
_____________.
• He turned to ____________ and _____________ for comfort.
• In found the answers he was looking for in _______________.
• Luther realized that only faith in the _____________________,
not good deeds, could save a person.
• No _________________________, rituals, etc. would save a
person if they did not ___________________.
•
Luther’s 95 Theses
• A list of things he thought were wrong with the Catholic
Church (95 Complaints)
• He criticized:
• The Power of _________________
• The ___________________________ of the Church
• __________________ (Catholic concept of Salvation)
• Gutenberg’s ___________________ made it possible for
Luther to spread his beliefs
• Posted his 95 Theses on ___________________ in Germany
• Gained support from __________ and criticism from the
____________________
•
Luther on Trial
• Trial was called “The ________________________________.”
• 1520: ______________________ ordered Luther to give up his
beliefs.
• Luther burned the order and was _______________________.
• Luther went into hiding where he translated the
______________________ into the ______________________
spreading his beliefs even further.
•
Acceptance of Reforms
• Some Local German Churches _____________ Luther’s ideas
• _______________________ was formed
• Supported by ___________________________who issued a
formal “protest” against the Church for suppressing the reforms
• The reformers came to be known as ______________________
 John Calvin
• Anti-Catholic
•
Influenced by _________________________
•
Disagreed with Luther’s teaching “Salvation through
_______________________________.”
•
Created his own Protestant religion in _________________________.
•
Calvin’s beliefs
• Salvation through ____________________.
• At birth, it is decided by God whether you would go to
__________________________________.
• ___________________________: God knows everything that
will happen in your life.
• Purified approach to life:
• No:
________________
________________
________________
________________
Map Activity
The Printing Press
Document Analysis
1. How many printing presses
were in Europe in 1471?
2. About how many printing
Presses were in Europe in 1500?
3. What inference can you make
about the price of books
in Europe between 1471
and 1500?
Explain your thinking.
4. What inference can you make
about the change in literacy
in Europe bvetwen1471
and 1500?
Explain your thinking.
5. What inference can you make about the change in the power of the Pope between 1471 and
1500? Explain.
Map Activity
The Reformation
Document Analysis
1. According to the Map, what religion dominated Europe in 1500?
2. By 1560, which two branches of Christianity existed in Western Europe?
3. What countries, or
parts of countries,
were all or mostly
Protestant in 1560?
4. Compare this map to
The printing press
Map. Is there a
connection between
the two maps?
Explain.
Cause and Effects of the Reformation
Causes
(Look through your Guided Notes)
Effects
Pages 171-172 of the Jarrett Book
What was the purpose of the Catholic CounterReformation? What were the results of the
Council of Trent?
How did the Reformation affect the power of the
Catholic Church? How did it affect the political
unity of Europe?
Who passed the Act of Supremacy? Why?
What did it accomplish?
What was the Thirty Years’ War?
How did the Reformation affect the power of secular
rulers?
What was the artistic impact of the Reformation?
What was the artistic impact of the Reformation?