Effects Of The Reformation Of America

The discovery of the Americas and the reformation of Europe had major impacts on Western Civilization. Columbus set out to find the Americas in order to find riches. In North America, the French set out to find a new passage way to China. In 1492 Columbus first reached the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci, led the voyage across the Atlantic, which ultimately led to the naming of Americas after Amerigo. Fifteen years after Ferdinand and Isabella expelled all Jews from Spain and the last Muslims out of Granada it seemed as though the Catholic Church was triumphant, until Martin Luther started a movement for religious reform. The discovery of the Americas caused many impacts on the world, one being, a new era of slavery. Slavery already existed in the world, but the discovery of the Americas caused it to become worse. Race and Color began to be attached to servitude and the economic scale of …show more content…
Martin Luther began the movement for religious reformation. The reformation impacted the invention of moveable printing. Printing became popular at this time because it helped spread the news of what was happening with the reform. The reformation also caused wars to begin. One war being The Peasants’ War of 1525. This war started because peasants were paying taxes to both their lord and the Catholic Church. Other wars were to follow. New forms of discipline were beginning to come about as well during the reformation of Europe. This caused people to think of the poor in a bad light. The poor were thought to not have good Christian virtue. Marriage also began to be regulated, because it was considered to be social discipline. Western military technology became important in the sixteenth centuries, causing the cost of war to increase. Gold from the New World helped Charles V to support his army. Ultimately, Charles V had to decide to divide his empire, because Europe was being pulled in different