24 SWAG Martin Luther despised the greed, hypocrisy, and moral rot of Catholic church and their indulgences of market value and wrote and offered to debate academically. Holy Roman emperor Charles V asked hium to take back views, but Martin was excommunicated. He went in Wittenberg and preached and it spread in Germany, Switzerland as protestants because of their protest in the Protestant reformation shattering religious unity in westover next few centuries monarchs took advantage of disunity and tighten control by curbing power of nobility, expanding royal authority, and increasing control over subjects Capitalism also in the earl modern times, and it pushed banking and science and moral,m ethical, and social thought on science over Christianity