In 1517 John Tezel, a Dominican friar, set off a religious reform movement that had been 500 years in the making. By selling off indulgences to the Christian followers of Martin Luther he initiated a chain of events that would eventually split Christendom into two parties. Martian, upset when his followers started to come to him with official Church documents that lessen their time in purgatory, wrote his Ninety-Five Theses. In his Thesis, Luther wrote his ninety-five arguments of the Church and its use of indulgences that would spark the Protestant reform movement. From the first Crusades to the time Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses; economical, political and cultural changes to the medieval world would establish the stage for his reforms.
With the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe fell into a dark age of economic ciaos. The economy fell back to a system of bartering where luxuries did not exist and most people where on the verge of starvation. Towns fell apart and a system of......
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