My first timeline!
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The Protestant Reformation: Luther's Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire forms after the collapse of the Roman Empire, and divides, East and West, with the East being absorbed and defeated by the Ottomans. Catholicism is now the dominate religion of Europe.
In 1517, a friar from Wittenberg named Martin Luther denounces church practices, and writes 95 theses on church abuses. Fellow Germans listen to him, and he begins a revolution, attacking the Catholic Church for selling indulgences. He begins a Lutheran ministry, and the Holy Roman Emperor excommunicates him from the church.
Philip Melanchthon, Luther's primary follower, gathers a corps of Lutherans in Saxony, and declares a "war" against the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, other reformations are occurring in Switzerland with Huldrych Zwingli and in the Netherlands with Jean Cauvin.
A group of Prussian princes decide to aide the Lutherans and establish a quasi-government in Saxony, a religious government based on the system of the Holy Roman Empire. Scholars suggest the young government to follow a system similar to the Ottomans, who created a religious empire based on Islam. The new government forms as the "Holy Empire of the Church of Christ," led by Luther and other Lutheran followers. The HRE denounces this new "regime" as illegitimate, and openly declares war, marching into Saxony.
The HECC based its government on the Ottoman system, with a "sultan" (in this case, "friar") as the supreme leader, with Lutheran-based common law and legal system. It's structured similar to the church.
HECC System -- Leader(s)
Friar Martin Luther (1517 - 1520)
Parson Philip Melanchthon
Various Ministers
Legislative parliament, the Reichstat
Various provinces governed by Lutheran churches
To be continued...
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The Protestant Reformation: Luther's Revolution
The Holy Roman Empire forms after the collapse of the Roman Empire, and divides, East and West, with the East being absorbed and defeated by the Ottomans. Catholicism is now the dominate religion of Europe.
In 1517, a friar from Wittenberg named Martin Luther denounces church practices, and writes 95 theses on church abuses. Fellow Germans listen to him, and he begins a revolution, attacking the Catholic Church for selling indulgences. He begins a Lutheran ministry, and the Holy Roman Emperor excommunicates him from the church.
Philip Melanchthon, Luther's primary follower, gathers a corps of Lutherans in Saxony, and declares a "war" against the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, other reformations are occurring in Switzerland with Huldrych Zwingli and in the Netherlands with Jean Cauvin.
A group of Prussian princes decide to aide the Lutherans and establish a quasi-government in Saxony, a religious government based on the system of the Holy Roman Empire. Scholars suggest the young government to follow a system similar to the Ottomans, who created a religious empire based on Islam. The new government forms as the "Holy Empire of the Church of Christ," led by Luther and other Lutheran followers. The HRE denounces this new "regime" as illegitimate, and openly declares war, marching into Saxony.
The HECC based its government on the Ottoman system, with a "sultan" (in this case, "friar") as the supreme leader, with Lutheran-based common law and legal system. It's structured similar to the church.
HECC System -- Leader(s)
Friar Martin Luther (1517 - 1520)
Parson Philip Melanchthon
Various Ministers
Legislative parliament, the Reichstat
Various provinces governed by Lutheran churches
To be continued...