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1490
THESIS STATEMENT
The reoccurring theme is that religions will cause conflicts among people, yet can unite people as well. -
1498
Vasco de Gama Searches For Christians
Vasco de Gama sailed to India in serach for Christians. He had hoped to change the people there to become like Christians like Christopher Columbus. Both did not realize any contraction in the blending of religious and material concerns. -
1517
Reformation
Began when a priest, Martin Luther, he gave a document called Ninety-five theses to a church by allegedly nailing it to a church. The document addressed the issues in the Roman Catholic Church. And Luther brought along the revolutionary idea that money won't save sinners and it's faith that would save you in the end. -
1535
Destroying Evidence
Europeans that invaded Mexico would destroy any remaining things that were connected to past religions. A bishop in Mexico (1535) would brag about destroying 500 pagan shrines and 20,000 idols. These objects would hold significant religious value. -
1560
Religious Revivalist Movement
In central Peru, a religious revivalist movement called Taki Onqoy was taking place. It was the idea that spirits of local gods could possess traveling dancers and teachers. And they would predict that Andean deities would be able to soon overcome the Christian God. -
Aug 24, 1572
Massacre of Huguenots
The French society was divided between Catholics and Protestant. For more than 30 years with violence, Protestants known as Huguenots. On this day, Catholic mobs in Paris and killed about 3,000 Huguenots, and leaving the rest perished for weeks later. -
1582
Missionaries
Matteo Ricci had a missionary in China from 1582 to 1610. Many Jesuits learned about Chinese culture and took aspects out from it, like the language, dressed as Chinese scholars, and etc. They also compared Christianity with Confucianism. -
Religious Tolerance
Henry IV, sick of the violence between the two religions issued the Edict of Nantes. Which granted more religious tolerance for the Protestants. However it was in the hopes that they would return to the Catholic Church. -
Thirty Years' War
A conflict between the Catholic and Protestants of the Holy Roman Empire that escalated to a war. Which spread throughout Europe. The violence and destruction caused by the war wiped out between 15 and 30 percent of the German population. -
Resolution of Thirty Years' War
The Peace of Westphalia need the Thirty Years' War. They switched up boundaries. set up agreements that each state was sovereign and authorized to control their own religious affairs inside it's own territory. In the end Catholic Europe was never returned but split up into different sections for religion. -
Opinions
The pope from Jesuits claimed authority over Chinese Christians. He also Declared that sacrifices to Confucius and respect of ancestors were "idolatry" and forbidden to Christians. Which angered Emperor Kanagxi, and he wrote about how much littler the "Westerns" were compared to them.