The Spread of Protestant Ideas Zwingli Switzerland was the center of Protestant Reformation. A Swissman Ulrich Zwingli, a priest and admirer of Erasmus was centered in the city of Zurich during the same years that Luther started with his movement. He was opposed to the elaborate and expensive rituals that the Catholic church seemed to be used too, he abolished Mass, confessions and indulgences and allowed marriage in the priesthood. He felt that strong discipline …showed first 75 words of 2179 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2179 total…Poland had been a powerful nation in the 1400s and 1500s but during the 16-1700’s Polish nobles became more and more independent and the king slowly lost power. The nobles met in the Diet to pass laws, but each noblemen had to approve of a law and any noblemen could veto a law, creating an atmosphere of not much going on. Poland was divided further in 1795 and was no longer an independent state until 1919.