How did the print help to spread. new ideas that led to the Reformation in Europe?

The print played a significant role in bringing about a division in the Roman Catholic Church’ There were many malpractices in the church. Ordinary people were exploited by the clergies. A movement known as protestant reformation was started in the sixteenth century to reform the catholic church dominated by Rome. Martin Luther was one of the main protestant reformers. In 1517, Luther wrote Ninety-Five Theses criticising many of the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. A printed copy of this was pasted on a church door in Wittenberg’ It challenged the church to debate his ideas. Luther’s writings were reproduced in vast numbers and read widely. This led to a division within the church and helped to-spread the new ideas that led to the beginning of protestant Reformation.