Reformation Dbq

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The Reformation: The protestant reformation changed the world due to the fact the it opened up the world to the probability of individualism and gave them the fuel to keep the idea alive till it became a more solid practice. Martin Luther was the one that metaphorically threw a wrench in the Catholic Church's machine of exploitation that they used to drain the peasants of their funds, he did this by releasing his 95 thesis document and releasing in out into the public. one of the statements was *" This word cannot be understood as referring to the sacrament of penance, that is, confession and satisfaction, as administered by the clergy," which in term meant that it is not the word/action of the clergy that makes you worthy of gods light, you …show more content…

If there had never been such a movement to bring nations together in such a form that benefited the entire country for the better than we would be seeing side effects of natural narcissism acts of only taking your needs before the needs of the community in the country. This would delay the growth of trade and the invention of new technologies would have suffered for the people would still only be willing to work/look after themselves, rather than unify together in nations to benefit the others in the society meaning that they would not move and grow together in a society and they would be stuck in singularities. Nationalism gave people the understanding that they will be more successful if they form together and unify for the better of the country to advance and protect themselves from the other antagonists around …show more content…

The revolution changed the way that things were produced and allowed for there to be more advancement made in more science and mathematic fields allowing less time consummation to take place with the replacement of small hand tools with larger, and faster machines that got rid of high consumer prices almost entirely for the fact was is that it was no longer as expensive to make things, and they took far less time to make than they did when they were having to be made by hand. The headway that was made (specifically by the U.K.), during this time was incredible for things like the steam powered engine, the powered loom and a machine was made that aided the effort to separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers. these new inventions helped aid the later development in technology by giving an easier mean to create items in mass production, and use less materials to save

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