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Here are the essay question answers, make sure to change them up a bit. 14. Catholic church was and still is the biggest religious organization of all Spain, It is about three quarters of the total population. Around 1480, the Catholic Monarchs established what would be known as the Spanish Inquisition, they wanted to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kindoms and territories. This is how the Catholic Church in America began with the Colonization of the continent. They were trying to control and influence the life of the new conquered. 15. Muslim scholars translated Greek writings into Arabic and then to Latin, they had preserved the ancient knowledge. People began to study ancient Greek writings and preserve ideas/documents of Muslims, Jews, and Christians. Renaissance scholars helped people question the authority of the Catholic Church and the logic of its teachings. People began to discover things and began to understand more. Greek, Jewish, Muslim, and Renaissance scholars were the main key to the Scientific Revolution. 16. The Catholic Church created new religious orders to win people back to the Church. They also banned protestant books. 17.A secular ruler is someone that is not guided by any particular form of religion. These 3 events were part of a process that resulted in rulers adopting secularism. 1) Peace of Augsburg: Signed around 1555, this made it possible for rulers of the Holy Roman Empire to choose between Protestantism or Catholicism as their choice of belief. 2) Edict of Nantes: Signed around 1590, this granted the Protestants of France rights in the nation. 3) The Peace of Westphalia: Series of peace treaties signed around 1650 that ended the Religious Wars in Europe.

A C B

1. B 2. A 3. D 4. B 5. A

The correct answers are C B B