SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Pope Leo X was selling indulgences because he
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needed to pay for a building project.
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wanted to send out Catholic missionaries.
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wanted a new home.
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trying to increase the church’s power.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Pope Leo X began offering indulgences to anybody who donated certain amounts of money to the Church. In essence, the more money a person donated, the more sins they had forgiven.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main funding for the early stages of building New St. Peter’s came from the sale of indulgences.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pope Leo X had granted indulgences to raise money for the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. These indulgences were being sold by Johann Tetzel not far from Wittenberg, where Luther was Professor of Theology.
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