- violence

- Humanist ideas

- poverty

- 95 Theses

- outlawed by Pope Leo X and Charles V

- convinced many to renounce pope'sauthority

- each prince decided betweenCatholicism or Lutheranism for theirstates

- popes against monarchs for power

- popes wealthy with lavish lives

- indulgences for money

- Queen Elizabeth compromisedbetween Protestant and Catholicpolicies

- break from Church was work of KingHenry VIII

- Pope Paul III

- brought on by extreme religious beliefsat the time

- Jews

- witches