Week 3

Chapter 15

- Christians all across the world do missionary work in Europe and North America

- the Scientific Revolution changed the world and how people viewed it

- in the 1500s Christianity was mainly in Europe

- some Christianity floating around in Egypt, Ethiopia, southern India, and Central Asia

- the people who decided to change or convert to Christianity was what brought more people in and in a way shaped the

- were defensive against Islam

- Roman Catholic v. Eastern Orthodox (some controversy, people were taking sides)

- Martin Luther posted the Theses, asking for debate about the religious abuses happening

- Martin Luther was not the only one who criticized these views

-  questioned the hierarchy, even the pope

- talked about the social tension in the society, told people to not only focus on the religious standpoints because there was so much more going on besides Christianity

- commoners liked this idea because it gave them more "power" in a way

- 1562–1598: French Wars of Religion, this was the Catholics vs. Huguenots

- 1618–1648: the Thirty Year War

- there were new religious orders

- Reformation made people skeptical and people wanted change

- people wanted to spread Christianity

- when people started to travel to spread their faith and what they believed in, others were doing the same and the explorers combined their religious interests

- missionaries were most successful in Spanish America and the Philippines

- the blending of 2 traditions were common

- Christianity reached China during the Ming and Qing dynasties

- the missionaries did not "give" much to the Chinese and were not really needed

- slaves that came to America, they brought their religons and traditions with them

- Confucian and Hindu cultures didn’t spread widely in early modern period

- Scientific Revolution came to be in the mid-sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century.

- it challenged the teachings of the religion

- figured out that Earth was not the center of the universe, it was the sun

- Scientific Revolution mainly consisted of male scientists

- many practices differed because of the Scientific Revolution proved something else and people started to think