Yesterday I talked about several forerunners to the Reformation. Men who laid the ground work for Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, and who said many of the same things Luther did, but they were killed or lived in hiding because of what they taught. Why was Martin Luther successful with … [Read more...]
Forerunners to the Protestant Reformation
To hear many people talk about history lessons it’s always a foregone conclusion the events will turn out the way it happened in the history books. In reality, there’s a bunch of smaller steps that you need for a particular event to take place. Take the American Revolution, it … [Read more...]
Post your own 95 Theses
This is a quick Protestant Reformation Activity you can do with your kids When Martin Luther went to nail his 95 theses on the Wittenburg door he did not do so because he was bored, or he wanted to upset the apple cart. He truly wanted to explain what he saw wrong with the … [Read more...]
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation Unit
On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Wittenburg door church. In two weeks it will be the 500th anniversary of those events. Disagree with his stand or agree, you can’t disagree with how much he changed the world both in the short term and the long term. … [Read more...]
Try this interactive Spanish Armada lesson
Before we can discuss the Spanish Armada, we need to set a few ground rules for this history lesson. A few hundred years ago there was a great upset in the balance of the world. The formerly very Catholic King Henry VIII decided he wanted a divorce to marry a new woman he was … [Read more...]
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