By 1500 the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire seemed unstoppable, especially when the West was trisected by Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox sectarianism.
Not very well worded. In 1500 Martin Luther was 16 years old, and apparently destined for a career as a lawyer.
The Reformation didn't really get going till well into the 1520s.
4 posted on 07/02/2007 7:12:11 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)