Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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The result of what is known as the German Peasants' War was a crushing of the revolt. Tens of thousands of peasants were killed.
The deliberations of the Council of Trent.
Ottoman Empire
Aurangzeb was the great-grandson of Akbar. Akbar was a generous king and treated all religions equally. But Aurangzeb was a true Muslim. He revived Akbar's policies and re-imposed taxes on non-Muslims. Aurangzeb was the most cruel Mughal King while Akbar was the greatest ruler of the Mughal dynasty.
He refused to let Henry VIII have an annullment to his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
Desiderius Erasmus
A woman who believes she has no control over whether she gets into heaven
The Commercial Revolution led to the adoption of mercantilism in Europe, while the Industrial Revolution contributed to the end of mercantilism.
They started a new Church: Luther's came to be named the Lutheran Church, Henry's was called the Church of England.
It allowed them to silence their political opponents.
It led some rulers to oppose the pope in the hopes of seizing that power for themselves.
The Renaissance began in Italian city states, where middle class citizens grew to challenge the traditional powers of feudal Europe