Question

How did Martin Luther's actions begin the Protestant Reformation? Pope Leo X supported criticisms of the Catholic Church. Church leaders accepted the resignation of the Roman pope. Other leaders and thinkers split from the Catholic Church. German peasants revolted against high taxes and oppression.

Answer 1

C) Other leaders and thinkers split from the church

Step-by-step explanation:

A is wrong because Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther for his criticism, he didn't support him.

B is wrong because even though the church leaders accepted the resignation of the pope, that was a result of the Great Western Schism.

D is wrong because the German peasants started to revolt after ideas about the Protestant Reformation started to circulate around Europe.

This means C is correct.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) Other leaders and thinkers split from the Catholic Church.

Martin Luther's actions began the Protestant Reformation when other leaders and thinkers split from the Catholic Church.

Martin Luther was a German priest that wrote the influential document titled "95 Theses," in 1517. In this document, he critiqued and disapproved the Catholic church practice of selling indulgences. Martin Luther, who was also a faculty teacher at the University of Wittenberg.

Luther's ideas expressed in "95 Theses" caused havoc in the Catholic church. Other leaders and thinkers split from the Catholic Church and started Protestantism. This division hurt the power and presence of the pope and Catholicism all over Europe.