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10-5 –Challenges to Church Authority - Pages 282-285

Essential Question:

Why, in the Middle Ages, did the Christian Church deal harshly with people who did not respect its authority?

Main Idea 1:
The church reacted to challengers by punishing people who opposed its teachings

•  By around 1100 some Christians had begun to ______the teachings of the ______. Religious ideas that ______accepted church ______are called heresy.

•  Heretics are people who have ______that are believed to be heresy.

•  Church officials sent ______and friars to find heretics. Some used ______to make people ______.

•  Most people were found ______and fined, put into ______, or killed.

•  Pope Innocent III decided that heresy was ______and encouraged the king of ______to rid the land of heretics.

•  This began a bloody ______that would last ______years, destroying many towns and lives.

Main Idea 2:
Christians fought Moors in Spain and Portugal in an effort to drive all Muslims out of Europe.

•  By the late 900s the ______government of ______had begun to weaken.

•  The kingdom of Spain fought against the ______and eventually drove them out of ______and ______.

•  By 1469 ______was ______under the rule of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

The Spanish Inquisition

•  Ferdinand and Isabella wanted only ______in their ______.

•  To make sure that only Christianity was ______, they created the ______Inquisition.

•  The Spanish Inquisition was an organization of ______who looked for and ______anyone in Spain suspected of secretly practicing their old ______.

•  They were ______in their search for heretics, ______, and Jews. Many people found guilty were ______by being ______to death.

•  About ______people died in Spain, and about ______in the Portuguese Inquisition.

Main Idea 3:
Jews faced discrimination across Europe in the Middle Ages.

•  Heretics and ______were not the only groups ______for their beliefs. European ______also suffered at the hands of Christians who believed ______were responsible for the death of Jesus.

Discrimination against the Jews

•  Rulers, supported by the ______, forced Jews to leave their ______.

•  In the Holy Roman Empire, frightened people blamed the ______for the ______. Jews had to flee their ______to escape angry mobs.