Chapter 7 Section 1Europe In Crisis:

The Wars of Religion

Guided Reading Activity

• Name the cause of French religious wars:

• Calvinism and Catholicism were aggressive in trying to win converts and eliminate one another

• Who were the Huguenots?

• French Protestants

Guided Reading Activity

• What other issues (besides religion) played a role in the French civil wars?

• Towns were willing to assist nobles in weakening the monarchy

• What event brought the French Wars of Religion to an end?

• 1589 – Henry of Navarre (political leader of Huguenots) succeeded to the throne and converted to Catholicism

Guided Reading Activity

• How did Philip II strengthen his control over Spain?

• He insisted on strict conformity to Catholicism

• How did Spain see itself, based on its Catholic heritage?

• As the people chosen by God to save Catholicism from Protestant heretics

Guided Reading Activity

• What happened when Philip tried to crush Protestantism in the Netherlands?

• Violence erupted and Calvinists began destroying statues in Catholic churches

• Why has the seventeenth century been called the golden age of the Dutch Republic?

• They held center stage as one of Europe’s great powers

Guided Reading Activity• What two notable things happened during

the reign of Elizabeth Tudor?

• The small kingdom became the leader of the Protestant world and the stage was set for a huge empire to emerge

• What did Philip II believe would happen if Spanish forces invaded England?

• The people of England would rise up against the Queen when the Spaniards arrived