Renaissance+and+Reformation+Religion

95 Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517. The 95 Theses are the list of criticisms regarding the Roman Catholic Church. Luther had written theses in Latin, but they were translated into all of the major European languages and was widely distributed. He protested the practice of the sale of indulgences. He argued that indulgences had no basis in the Bible, that pope had no right to release souls from purgatory, and that Christians could be saved only through faith. || This is the image of the conference at Munster on October 14, 1648, where Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War. It was signed in 1648. There were several results of the war that changed Europe forever. First, it brought to a close the wars of the region that had followed in the rise of the Reformation. Second, Germany was devastated and also depopulated because Germany was like the main battlefield of the war. The widespread destruction affected Germany in many ways but most significantly fragmented a politically divided region. Germany remained independent and did not be united until some 200 years after the Thirty Years' War. Third, the Hubsburg dynasty, no longer ruled. New states such as Dutch Republic and France came into new prominence. ||
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 *  This picture shows a small crowd gathering when Martin Luther post his