It was likely he could face death on charges of heresy.
A hundred years before Luther began his reformation efforts, Czech reformer Jan Hus was put to death by the Roman Catholic Church for being a heretic. There was much fear Luther would be treated like Hus had been treated. Luther had the advantage of having a strong prince in his territory in Saxony who was intent on protecting Luther as one of his subjects, preventing the pope (seen as another ruling prince) from interfering with the sovereignty that Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony asserted over his domain.
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2. A quarter of the countries with a GDP per capita of less than $1,000 in 1960 had growth rates of less than zero from 1960 to 1995
Explanation:
A GDP per capita of less than $1,000 is extremely low, and if a quarter these poor countries with such a low GDP per capita did not see any growth from 1960 to 1995, it means that the some of the poorest countries in the world in 1960 are still among the poorest in 1995.
At the same time, many advanced nations such as Japan and the United States saw great economic growth in the same period of time.
This two events have caused greater inequality among nations.
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The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), commonly known in English as East Germany) was created as a socialist republic on 7 October 1949 and began to institute a government based on that of the Soviet Union. The equivalent of the Communist Party in East Germany was the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED), which along with other parties, was part of the National Front of Democratic Germany. It was created in 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. Following German reunification, the SED was renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_East_Germany
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