The Protestant Reformation in Europe in the first half of the 16th century seriously challenged the Roman Catholic Church. Before Martin Luther publicized his “95 Theses” attacking church corruption in 1517, virtually all Europeans belonged to the Catholic Church, but just 20 years later much of the continent belonged to the Reformed, or Protestant, church. Luther’s critique of the existing church had become a new denomination in its own right. The Catholic Church was forced to respond, and did so in several different ways during a period known as the Counter-Reformation.
The major cultural contribution of the Byzantine Empire that means a picture made of many cubes of marble or glass is a Mosaic
When the party that lost a court case asks for a higher court to review the decision, that person is using the right to "appeal," since cases can go all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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