Why did the early Reformation appeal to European peasants and help inspire the peasants' revolt? Why did Luther ultimately oppose the revolt?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. The Reformation and questioning of religious authority
2. That Luther's concepts of Christian rights was not a call to economic or social upheaval
3. How Luther's concern with spiritual rather than material religious concepts made him skeptical of revolution to improve material conditions
4. Lutherans' pragmatic action to avoid widespread persecution

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Why did religion and education play such a key role in African American culture in the South during the Reconstruction era? Give examples of how both areas were important to black life.

What will be an ideal response?

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How and why did American business practices change in the 1920s? What effect did those changes have on the economy?

What will be an ideal response?

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From the Nara period to the nineteenth century, most histories of Japan were written in

a. Japanese. c. Altaic. b. Chinese. d. Cantonese.

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