The Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation:        

         Over the past week, we have been learning about the Protestant Reformation.The Protestant Reformation was a time period during the 16th century where there were many cultural and religious changes. There were constantly new concepts rising all of a sudden because of the list Martin Luther had created. Many of these changes were due to the diverse questions coming from the people as they started to realize that the church had been lying to them. There were numerous ways that the church was secretly ripping them off and making them believe in fake theories. Some of them included the use of indulgences when the priests took many from the people for their sins to be forgiven. Along with that, the Bible started to play an important role as soon as people started to be able to read realizing that some beliefs provided by the church were false.

        To make the understanding process easier to understand, we were asked to create mind maps. We took the main topic of Protestant Reformation and divided them into subtopics such as causes, effects and some of the main figures. Some of the causes for the downfall of the church would be the spread of the bible. As people started to read, they noticed that the church was convingin them untrue beliefs. An important contributor to the spread the Bible would be the invention of the Gutenberg Press as many copies of the started to sell. The effect is that the Gutenberg Press making more money and eventually becoming popular. Some important figures would include Martin Luther, John Calvin, Pope Leo X and King Henry VIII.