* (Under Construction) Ninety Five Theses and the Revolution
that followed by Thomas Leckwold Martin Luther's Ninety Five
Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences was nailed to
the castle church in Wittenberg, in now modern day Germany, on
October 31, 1517. This document was a protest that strongly
criticized the practice of selling indulgences of the Roman
Catholic Church, known here after as the Church. The document
was a challenge to church authority that set forth events that
permanently changed the religious, political, and social factors
of central Europe, and led to a series of wars using the pretext
of faith, and the role of the Church in the political structure
of Western Europe. Luther's document was not meant to be a call
to revolution, but the social conditions, and economic factors,
along with religious convictions did set in motion a revolution
and subsequent conflicts in central Europe. Cairo’s Fortress on
the Mountain by David W. Tschanz Cairo residents call it the
Qal'at al-Jabal, the