14.3 Section Review

Explain the importance of:

• missionary- a person who travels to a foreign country in order to do religious work.
• convert-to persuade a person to adopt a new religion or belief.
• covenant- a binding agreement
• Peace of Westphalia- 

  an agreement reached in A.D. 1648, which recognized the permanent division of western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations and ended many ongoing religious wars.

• Federalism - is the sharing of power between an organization, such as church or government and its members. 

what role did religious missionaries play in the reformation? 

• The missionaries gave a decisions to the people about changing their religion. If the people rejected then the missionaries would kill them.

what impact did the reformation have on the religious geography of the Americas? 

• English people were one of the main people that have settled in the America, while being the protestant. While the Spanish, Portuguese and French were the main catholics that settled in Americas. 

how did the protestants influence the development of democratic practices?

• in usual democracy, any person can become someone but the protestants made it that only Christians can be someone important. No Catholics

why might Catholic missionaries have had more success finding converts than protestant missionaries did? 

• Because the Catholics have decided that their religion can be available to anyone and in any time new people could join, that's how they spread their religion. But the protestants chose people that were allowed to join. 

Compare the maps on 457 and 482. what is the relationship between the distribution of religions in Europe and the Americas? 

• In page 457 the Catholic church didnt have as much power but in page 482 the only religions that were left were Roman Catholic Church and Protestants. But before in page 457 there were many churches and religions. The Roman Catholic church moved to america and before it was in Europe. 
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