The Influence Of Martin Luther's Reforms

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Monarchs started to increase their power and mainly it was not for the good.They wanted huge armies,the thing was that,they couldn't afford big armies so..the raised the taxes and that made the people mad because they couldn't afford that so..the peasants revolted and that made they wonder if the peasants could hurt them so they figured they couldn't lose to the peasants so they needed a bigger and better army so how do they get that?They raised taxes again and that just made it worse because now the peasants definitely couldn't afford anything so they didn't have anything to lose so..almost all the peasants were revolting now.Later once the peasants couldn't do anything the monarch finally had complete control and that’s what they wanted the whole time,was to be bigger and better than everyone. The church's reformation …show more content…

was young he was a monk and grew up in a monastery he was always open minded and easy to go with so when he heard the church was making people pay indulgences to pay for your sins he knew it was wrong and he had to stand up even though he was a monk.So on October 31 1517 he went to the center or the church and nailed his 95 thesis and people were amazed that he still was alive. So then people went after him and he went to either his monastery or another church or somewhere to hide and when he got there he put on a disguise and stayed like that for a

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