Analyzing Spread of European Religions

Analyze the two maps. Remember that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican Churches can together be called Protestants. What type of Christianity would be found at location #1 (Catholic or Protestant)? Why?

Analyze the two maps. Remember that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican Churches can together be called Protestants. What type of Christianity would be found at location #2 (Catholic or Protestant)? Why?

Analyze the two maps. Remember that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican Churches can together be called Protestants. What type of Christianity would be found at location #3 (Catholic or Protestant)? Why?

Using the maps above, what would account for the U.S. being a majority Protestant nation today as seen in the graph to the right?

The Papal Bull "Inter Caetera," (seen to the right) issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World. The document supported Spain’s strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the lands discovered by Columbus the previous year. What is the Pope telling The King and Queen of Spain to do in the above excerpt?

How does this letter, written in 1493, affect the culture of areas like Mexico and South America in modern times? (hint: look over the maps above)