up Schmalkaldic Articles •Expansion of the Reformation •German Lutherans formed regional bodies to create new churches •Educational reforms •Reformation was introduced to Denmark by King Christian II, where it thrived under Frederick I •Under Christian III Lutheranism became the official state religion •Sweden - King Gustavus Vasa embraced Lutheranism and subjected church authority to the Diet of Vesteras •Poland was split between Lutherans, Anabaptists, Calvinists, and Antitrinitarians…
The Middle Ages also more commonly known as the Dark Age was a period in time that lasted for a thousand years starting sometime the fifth and officially ending all the way in the fifteenth century. This period in time is mostly characterized in modern day by subjects such as the black plague, the hundred years war, tales of brave knights, rigid class systems and heavy religious influences. As the fourteenth century came about there began to be a gradual transition into what would be known as…