In the time period circa 1450 to circa 1650, empires characterized by centralized rule, heterogeneous populations, and large geographic territories, ruled diverse parts of the world (Lecture 2, January 7). These empires aimed¬¬¬ to expand and further their access to more material and financial resources to further the magnitude of their influence and power. Religion helped constitute a unified ideology for empires to administer their rule over diverse peoples and territories (Lecture 7, January 21). More specifically, religion as a ruling ideology helped create uniformity within vast and diverse territories for empires. Two cases that show evidence of empire use of religion in this manner are the Hapsburg Empire and its relationship to Catholicism …show more content…
This relationship was rooted in the first Inquisition of 1450, when the Spanish forcefully converted Sephardic Jews and Muslims to the Catholic faith or face expulsion. Catholicism then solidified itself within the Hapsburg Empire when Carlos 1 merged Spain with the Empire to become the newly crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V in 1519 (Lecture 7, January 21). Catholicism was the driving force of unity for the Hapsburg Empire as it conquered diverse territories of different peoples. When the Spanish reached the Americas, the Empire used Catholicism to justify their territorial aspirations against the Aztec and Incan Empires in the New World (Panama, 474). Catholicism helped the Empire justify the conquering of new territories and replacement of “inferior” cultures and indigenous, pagan practices (Sepulveda, “On the Causes of Just with the …show more content…
O’Toole argues while Catholicism created a unity throughout different parts of the Hapsburg Empire, it also created dissent from within. For example, displeased with what he saw as a corrupt and self-indulgent Catholic Church in the 1500s, a German monk named Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses, which highlighted the indulgent practices by the Church. “Why does not the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?” (Luther, Thesis 86). Consequently, his Ninety-Five Theses sparked the Protestant Reformation, which challenged the church monarchy and helped split Christianity in two: Catholic and Protestant. As a result, a domino effect, which surpassed religion, led to change within European polities that facilitated a “divided Christian Europe” (Lecture 7, January
From David Landes’s book (1999) I chose to review chapter 12 ‘Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire’, Abacus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, London, pp. 168-185. Firstly, I will explain the reasons behind the decline and rise of some empires in the 18th century, analysing the period between the start of the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution. Further on, I will analyse the influence of Religion: Protestantism in the expansion of Capitalism and Catholicism in the demise of former prosperous economies. The empires that started the Age of Discovery, Spain and Portugal, ended up big losers; they had too much money and instead of saving and investing, they spent it.
Thesis: The Dutch were infuriated by the Hapsburg rulers of Spain and openly opposed them due to the way in which the rulers imposed a ridiculous amount of religious intolerance and taxation which led to the Dutch Revolt. Contextualization: Iconoclast riots in the Netherlands Tax revolts and refusal to pay Pacification of Ghent - alliance of northern Dutch independent states to drive Spanish out of their countries. Body Paragraph #1 Topic sentence: Because the Dutch were dominantly Protestant and the Spanish were primarily Catholic, the religious disputes between each country assisted in political tensions.
Religion and its various ideologies played a key role in advancing the authority of the Ottoman and Catholic Europe; it also influenced the way they confronted outside powers and people from other religions. The Ottomans where an Islamic ruled empire which brought about a certain ideology that gave them the God given rights to the earth. Catholic Europe also had this ideology from where God gave Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven and endowed upon them earth as well (Matt 16: 19). The catholic church in Europe seemed to have their hands in the cookie jar of European Medieval Government and some what controlled the kings and nobles.
The Protestant Reformation had a huge impact in all Europe in the sixteen century, but which ones were the factors that lead to it? It is very important to highlight that the European Christianity was falling into a noticeable corruption of its popes and some other high position members. Robbery, and even warriors were among of some factors that took the Cristian Church to a declining path. One of these examples was the Pope Julius II, which one won the nickname “the warrior pope” because he led armies against people. Furthermore, the church was not the only factor promoting this reformation, some other social changes were occurring with the masses in Europe; many of the peasants were being free especially in the western Europe.
In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas was established in order to evenly divide unclaimed lands between Portugal and Spain. This led to the Line of Demarcation, in which the non-European world was divided into two zones. Portugal had rights to the eastern hemisphere, and Spain had rights to the western hemisphere. This allowed Spain to colonize areas in the New World. Even though they had this opportunity, they were not able to colonize specific areas in North America due to competition with other European countries.
For many years religion has been used as a tool to influence those around us. Whether it be to gain power of a society or to influence the peers living in the society, religion has been proven has a very effective way to gain control of an empire. As the peninsula of Spain has seen many different kingdoms take control, one cannot ignore the fact that religion has been used as an instrument to scare, govern, and manipulate those in those communities. First, we will see how the Carthaginians created their empire from the ideology and practice of Polytheism. Next, we see how Constantine successfully implemented the Christian religion to get a stronger control of the peninsula.
The wars of this time period, were long and drawn out religious
The Catholic Church and Latin America The Catholic Church was a great power ruling many civilizations in Europe during the period between 1492 and 1830. Therefore, the role of the Catholic Church was of utmost importance to the colonization and development of Latin America as it was a great force in Spain and Portugal. Despite the peaceful teachings of the Church, greed and a hunger for power led them to make decisions harming Latin America and Christianity, rather than thriving it. In this paper, I will show that the Catholic Church is significantly responsible for the colonization and development of Latin America through, the Christianizing mission, the Treaty of Tordesillas, and the Spanish Inquisition.
The church and the holy roman empire!!! The conflict between the papacy and the european monarchs. HRR_1789_EN.png INTRODUCTION
The Reformation largely influences his work and he noted the shift in Europe’s economic centre following this, away from Catholic countries, for example France, towards protestant countries, for
I agree that the Catholic and Protestant church did not communicated well and needed a reformation in order to move ahead with Christianity. This time where the Catholic church ruled didn’t spread the Gospel the way Jesus Christ and the Apostles spread. Instead, Christian faith spread by heresy which Luther filled the vacuum the Catholic church created. The religious-political-authority system of the Ecumenical church revealed a resurgence with reformers such as Martin Luther, Augustine, John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, Zwingli, Bucer, Jakob Arminius, and Jonathan Edward. However, at the same time Christian churches demonstrated opposition to the Catholic church way of interpretation and other things opening the way to diversity of interpretation
The Reformation was a period of religious upheaval and conflict in Europe, marked by a wave of religious conversions as many Catholics converted to Protestantism. However, this conversion was not without consequences. Protestant converts faced persecution from both Catholic authorities and their former co-religionists who viewed their conversion as a betrayal. This paper investigates the persecution of Protestant converts from Catholicism during the mid-15th to 16th century in England and France, two of the most prominent battlegrounds for religious conflict during this period. The paper will dive into the themes of the Reformation and the Tudor Monarchy in England and also look at the conflicts between Catholics and Huguenots in France, the
Christianity was an essential component for empires in 15th century Europe. Religion became a powerful driving factor for the Spanish to convert and colonize the Americas in a process they justified as divine duty. Invoking religion was not a simple solution to this controversy as it could be used with great efficiency by both sides. Although the Spanish conquistadors generally pressed the importance of converting the natives as a justification for their conquest, conversion being a core tenant of the faith, Bartolome de Las Casas highlighted the grievous sins committed by the conquistadors and how this fundamentally violated the precepts of the faith itself. Thus, mounting convincing challenge to the fidelity towards these religious principles.
Ottoman Empire was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable empires that shape the history. It is founded by Osman Gazi in the small place in today 's west of modern Turkey, however, he and his successors made it become empire from a small beylik in three continents. Ottoman Empire was not a national state; it consisted of a bunch of mixture of various ethnicities and religions. To consider our contemporary world, it can be said that it is extremely hard that managing people from different roots, but ottomans somehow managed it gloriously until the 19th century. This paper investigates how ottomans deal with religious diversity in the empire.
In the early sixteenth century, Martin Luther highlighted some of the key problems that he and others found with Roman Catholic traditions and doctrine in his 95 Theses. This act brought to light some of the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church’s traditions and doctrine which the Protestants would soon attempt to correct. Such a correction would take a huge amount of effort and time, so the question arises: Why would the Protestants work so hard to create their own doctrine and tradition if in the end they remained believers of the same religion as before? But while followers of both the Roman Catholic and the Reformed doctrine are considered “Christians,” these doctrines differ drastically on essential details having to do with Scripture, man’s relationship with God, and the way that man receives his salvation.