Luther Leads the Reform

An indulgence was a pardon that released a sinner from performing the penalty that a priest imposed for sins.
The reformation was a movement for religious freedom.
The Lutherans were a separate religious group created by Luther and his followers.
Protestants were the protesting princes at one time, but are now Christians who belong to non-Catholic churches.
The famous religious settlement where princes agrees that each ruler would decide the religion of his state was called the Peace of Augsburg.
Annul means to set aside.
The Angelican Church was set up by parliament in 1559.

3. The political, economic, and social problems that helped bring about the Reformation were the idea of humanism that made people realize they had value. Also the invention and usage of the printing press helped them to excel.

4. The term Protestantism originated from Martin Luther who started Lutheranism, John Calvin who founded Calvinism, and King Henry VIII who started Anglicanism. Those were the three branches of Protestantism at first that developed from the Reformation. They spread throughout Europe and into the rest of the world.