Protestant Reformation vs Exploration
11/6/2014
Period 3
Protestant Reformation vs. Exploration The Renaissance was an age of education and literature. It might not have been possible without the printing press and more importantly the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was a big milestone in history because it taught people that they cannot just buy their way into heaven, they have to earn that honor from God himself. The bible also played a big part in the reformation because it made people more literate so they could read themselves rather than listening to what the pope was telling them. Once they learned to read people started to question the pope and then the pope would begin to lose power. The Protestant Reformation was the more important consequence of the printing press because it helped spread bibles, weakened the pope’s power, and stopped people from buying letters of indulgences. Martin Luther, was a Catholic priest who was unhappy with his church and because that the church was not focusing on the teachings of the bible. He plays significant roles in the Protestant Reformation with his 95 theses. Bibles were very important during the Protestant Reformation because it taught people the truth and that the pope was lying to them. “Of course, printing was in its infancy, but Germany of the time was turning out about a million books a year, of which a third-300,000-were by Luther.” It also made people more literate because during the years of 1518 to 1525, more than 2.1 million bibles were printed in Germany and all of them were by Martin Luther. This proves that the printing press really helped the Protestant Reformation by printing more bibles, adding on to the bibles that were already printed. This also proves that the printing press helped strengthen Christianity. The Black Plague helped with the Protestant Reformation because people kept dying and started losing faith in the pope and the Catholic Church because they were listening to the pope and the church and were
Period 3
Protestant Reformation vs. Exploration The Renaissance was an age of education and literature. It might not have been possible without the printing press and more importantly the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was a big milestone in history because it taught people that they cannot just buy their way into heaven, they have to earn that honor from God himself. The bible also played a big part in the reformation because it made people more literate so they could read themselves rather than listening to what the pope was telling them. Once they learned to read people started to question the pope and then the pope would begin to lose power. The Protestant Reformation was the more important consequence of the printing press because it helped spread bibles, weakened the pope’s power, and stopped people from buying letters of indulgences. Martin Luther, was a Catholic priest who was unhappy with his church and because that the church was not focusing on the teachings of the bible. He plays significant roles in the Protestant Reformation with his 95 theses. Bibles were very important during the Protestant Reformation because it taught people the truth and that the pope was lying to them. “Of course, printing was in its infancy, but Germany of the time was turning out about a million books a year, of which a third-300,000-were by Luther.” It also made people more literate because during the years of 1518 to 1525, more than 2.1 million bibles were printed in Germany and all of them were by Martin Luther. This proves that the printing press really helped the Protestant Reformation by printing more bibles, adding on to the bibles that were already printed. This also proves that the printing press helped strengthen Christianity. The Black Plague helped with the Protestant Reformation because people kept dying and started losing faith in the pope and the Catholic Church because they were listening to the pope and the church and were