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Luther The Shattering the head so he
could give
M artin Luther was a student of
The release of the Bible in
T h e Sh atter ed law before he becam e a friar. Born in Germ an was revolutionary because it him self a
Cr oss 1483 Luther was educated from an had never before been in any other divorce. After
early age and went to study law at 19. H enry passed
language than Latin which
During a violent storm Luther away his
prom ised to St. Anne that he join a com m oners couldn?t read. Once daughter M ary
religious institute if she delivered Germ an com m oners started reading tried to rid
him from harm . Luther survived the the bible they started having their England of
storm and joined a local m onastery, own interpretations and this led to an
he had a deep sense of loyalty to his protestants by
uprising.
new faith and was obsessed with killing an she
staying pure and so he was always The people started rebelling, could find but
confessing, fasting, and praying. looting, and attacking churches when her sister
After awhile they sent him Elizabeth took the throne she gently
T he one m an revolution across Germ any and setting up their
away to Vatican City in hopes to get
own religions. Som e of these include tried to bring back protestant religions.
of religion in Europe him to calm down but once there did anti-baptists, lutherans, and puritans.
he really start seeing the corruption
By Ch ar lie An dr ew s in the church. Clergym en rushing The Start of Persecution
m ass, not following their oaths to the The Positions of the Nobility
church, and clergym en taking Throughout history people have
advantage of their position to m ake After com m oners in Germ any waged war and discrim inated because of
m oney or power. started revolting Luther then the religion a person chooses to follow.

After preaching for a while encouraged the nobility and royal Even if they are good people others will
The Catholic Church was one the biggest social Luther decided to write 95 theses fam ilies to slaughter the rebellion judge them on things that they usually
why people should sim ply have faith
Institutions of all tim e. People cannot and to take the power for them selves. have no control over like where they are
experience enough awe to to and didn?t H e believed that the royalty was from , their gender, their sexual
com prehend the power the church need the placed there by god so they could
had. It controlled a good chunk of church to orientation, or their religion even if it is
Europe, was paid taxes by everyone, have god?s take care of his greatest creation, the a pointless thing to do. H enry the 8ths
blessing Earth. The royalty followed Luther?s
had its own m ilitary, and was the m ain daughter M ary for exam ple burned
religion of Europe. It had power higher and m ailed plan because it would let them get people at the stake for sim ply not being
than any king could for hundreds of them to a m ore m oney and power which they catholic even if her father the king told
years bishop. really liked. his subjects to reject Catholicism before
The priests and officials were Things
started to H enry the 8th was one of the M ary cam e to power.
also pretty unfaithful. They rushed
m asses, offer a type of spiritual released biggest exam ples of m onarchs using
cleansing for substantial fees, and copies of the revolution to their advantage. H e
could get away with just about everything. Eventually one the bible in wanted a divorce but the Pope
friar stood up to the Catholic Church and crippled it from germ an. This was the breaking point
for the Protestant Revolution. wouldn?t give him one so he m ade the
within.
Church of England and put him self as