Chapter 15 Blog
After reading chapter 15 on cultural transformations I learned many things. One thing I learned was the conflict between Christians and Protestants. To start off Christianity was divided internally between the Roman Catholics of Western Europe and the Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia. On the outside, Christianity had been cautious and defensive towards Islam. Islam had forced out Christian crusaders in the Holy Land by 1300 and captured the capital of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople in 1453. The Protestant Reformation began in 1517. Martin Luther began the reformation by offering a public debate with a document called the Ninety-Five Theses. This document highlighted the faults of Christianity. During this time most people were already skeptical about corruption within the pope, clergy, and the churches spending. For women, Protestanism didn't offer them more freedom than Christianity but within Protestanism the worshiping of female figures ...