- A German monk often credited with sparking the start of theProtestant Reformation in Europe, a turning point making a breakwith the traditional Christian church.- In 1517, he wrote the Ninety-five Theses, a list of arguments directed against the Roman Catholic Church's practice of selling indulgences (the pardoning of sins).- Believed that faith in God alone would allow people to get into Heaven, that no authority on Earth could pardon people for their sins, and that the Bible was the only source of religious truth.- Although he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, his ideas spread across northern Europe, in large part because of the printing press.- The founder of the Protestant denomination called Lutheranism.- Even as Christianity spread around the world as a result of interaction across the hemispheres, it was becoming increasingly more diversified both in Europe and abroad.

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