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In the study of history, it seems like important periods all tend to center around certain big events, events that can be

used as a sort of shorthand when discussing or teaching about those periods in history.

In many cases, those events serve as catalysts for everything that would come to follow.

Take Martin Luther and the 95 Theses, for example,

were his semi-legendary actions of October 31st, 1517, were they the

spark that set off the Protestant Reformation and subsequently the Renaissance?

I mean, no.

Reality is a lot more complex than that.

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