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Renaissance Activity 1B Factsheet

Cut into rectangles for envelopes needed in Renaissance Activity 1B

MARTIN LUTHER 1483-1546

(1517) Nailed the 95 theses to a church door

*Posted his ninety-five theses which objected to excesses in the Roman Catholic Church such as the selling of indulgences. His ideas started the Protestant Reformation which will start other types of Christian churches.
"He had more influence than Copernicus because he played a substantially larger role in the Protestant Reformation than Copernicus played in the Scientific Revolution."


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