All terms in this list:

Indulgence: The practice of selling pardons for sins.

corrupt: A way of lying or being dishonest.

thesis: Luther's complaints in the 1500's about the priest taking advantage of people.

Vernacular: A bible that Luther made for people to read in their own language.

Revolt: Luther's desire to start a fight with the Catholic church.

Protestatism: The faith of the protestants.

Finance: The king and queens money to manage weapons for the pope.

Excommunicated: To kick a person out of the Catholic church.

Presbyterians: A group that John Calvin believed to be chosen by god to go to heaven.

Catholic Reformation: The Catholic church's actions to defend themselves against the protestants.

Heretics: Nonbelievers or the protestants that were taken to court and killed by the pope.

Jesuits: A society formed by the pope that was set up like the army.

Index: A book published by the Catholic church that good Catholics were not suppose to read.