The document provides a mind map about the Counter Reformation and asks questions about how Lutheranism and Protestantism started, the differences between Catholicism and Lutheranism, the three methods used by the Counter Reformation and whether they worked to persuade people, the four main conflicts that divided Europe in the 16th-17th centuries, the Treaty of Westphalia, and who was king in Britain during the Civil Wars.

1. Look at the following mind maps and then try to
answer the questions at the end.
Good Luck!

3. The counter reformation

4. Religion and politics

5. • How did Lutheranism and Protestantism start?
• What differences can you think of between Catholicism
and Lutheranism by looking at the first mind map?
• What were the three “methods” of the Counter-
reformation? Do you think they worked to persuade
people to come back to Catholicism?
• What are the four main conflicts that divided Europe
during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries?
• What was the Treaty of Westphalia?
• Who was king in Britain at the time of the Civil Wars?