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- 131: The Renaissance
- ... called the Catholic Reformation took place. Religious leaders formed the Council of Trent and banned the selling of indulgences. Catholics started new religious orders ,such as the Jesuits, in order to draw people back to Catholicism. Their efforts paid off and many people reverted back to the Church, although Protestantism still remained strong. During the Renaissance people expressed individuality in their religious beliefs, ideas, and art. Artists made great advancements during ...
- 132: Why the Penal Laws Failed
- ... to lessen the overall power of the catholic people in society. The Irish parliament believed that if there were no Catholics in a position of power then people would no longer accept the religion of Catholicism. However this was not so. This law did not work as originally planned, and the catholic religion still flourished. This upset the Protestants in parliament to great degrees, they quickly tr ies to create and ...
- 133: Attitudes Toward Abortion
- ... single) and (1) ever-married (the other four categories). Religious identification was determined by recoding respondent's religious preference from protestant, catholic, jewish, none, and other to catholic and non-catholic, because, of those categories, Catholicism is the only one with clear norms strictly forbidding abortion. Additionally, in order to measure strong anti-abortion attitudes within protestant churches, a question on the fundamentalism of the respondent is included. The "non-conservative ...
- 134: Absolute Monarchs
- ... to a succession of territories on Frances’s northeast border. Also, in 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, he forced France’s 1 million Huguenots either to leave the country or to convert to Catholicism. In 1648 Frederick William, backed by both the Dutch and the French, restrained Sweden in northern Europe during the negotiation leading to the Treaty of Westphalia, earning new territory without having to do much. Also ...
- 135: Political Parties
- ... in opposition to the Masonic lodge and other secret societies. The Nullification and Anti- Jackson parties were South Carolina protests against federal authority. The American, or Know Nothing, party of 1856 opposed immigration and Roman Catholicism. The Liberty and Free-Soil parties were pre-Civil War antislavery groups. In 1860 the Constitutional Union party tried to avoid the slavery issue. The Greenbacks of 1876 and the Populists of 1890 advocated easy ...
- 136: Mexico
- ... equivalent to about 10 pesos at the time, but it varies. Spanish of course being the main language and a few Mayan dialects. Mexico is a country that is very devoted to religion with Roman Catholicism taking 89% of the pop. and protestant 6% of the pop. Nogales, Sonora is the nearest Mexican town to Tucson, but many people don’t even make it there. So I encourage you to go ...
- 137: Mexico
- ... pottery manufacturing center; León (758,279), the center of an agricultural area; Ciudad Juárez (798,499), a commercial and manufacturing center; and Tijuana (698,752), a tourist as well as an industrial center. Religion Roman Catholicism is the faith of about 90 percent of the people. Mexico's long tradition of official anticlericalism ended in 1991 with the passage of constitutional changes granting legal status to religious institutions and allowing parochial ...
- 138: Austria
- ... Salzburg, a cultural and tourist center, with 138,213; and Innsbruck, the provincial capital of Tirol and a tourist attraction because of the beauty of the city and its location, with 116,100. Religion Roman Catholicism is the religion of about 84% of the population of Austria. Various Protestant denominations account for about 6%. Muslims constitute 1%, and a small minority of the population is Jewish. Language German is the official ...
- 139: Mexico
- ... Mexico's population, while Native American's makes up about thirty percent, and European's make up about nine percent. There are many religions being practiced in Mexico, but the biggest by far is Roman Catholicism, which is practiced by about ninety percent of Mexico's population. The other fairly big religion, while nowhere near as widely practiced, is Protestantism, practiced by about five percent of all people currently going to ...
- 140: The Dominican Republic
- ... life expectancy from birth is for males 65 years and for females 69 years. Out of 100,000 live births 61.4% of the babies die. The start religion for the Dominican Republic is Roman Catholicism. Over 90% of the population is Catholic. Free public education is offered through the high school level and attendance is mandatory through the 6th grade. A lot of the Dominicans don't finish school for ...
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