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"Struck down" means to be suddenly hit, usually by catastrophe.
In one sense, Pope Leo X and Prierias, Master of the Papal Palace, were responsible for bringing about the Protestant Reformation, because Leo greatly increased the sale in Indulgences and Prierias declared any challenge to the sale of indulgences heretical. This led inevitably to a confrontation in which neither side could compromise.In another sense, Martin Luther was directly and transparently responsible for bringing about the Protestant Reformation, because he saw corruption and the potential for greater corruption in the Church and sought to regulate the sale of Indulgences. This struck at the heart of the papal lifestyle and eventually resulted in his excommunication. Luther began to criticise other aspects of Catholic doctrine and practice, until only a complete break with Rome was possible.
The Loma Prieta earthquake which struck on October 17, 1989, just prior to the start of game 3.
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Black Death struck Europe in 1346 to 1353. People thought that it was anger of god.
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Black death struck in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Martin Luther. He, because of his extremely scrupulous conscience and false vocation to religious life, decided to reform the Church.He didn't like the selling of indulgences and other corrupt practices. It is important to point out that there were many things that need reform in the Catholic Church, but it was the pope's job, not Martin Luther's.
There have been several catastrophes throughout the life of the Earth that caused huge extinctions of life. The most recent was the arrival of an asteroid that struck the area that is now Yucatan about 65 million years ago. That asteroid disturbed the climate (mostly by blasting huge quantities of dust into the atmosphere) and the end of most of the dinosaurs. That, led to the ascension of mammals as the dominant land life form. That, in turn, led to humans who are busily manufacturing the next catastrophe themselves. So we could say that, in a sense, the Yucatan meteorite was a double whammy, catastrophe-wise.
The Black Death first struck Europe in 1347. It had been in Asia before that, but there is no record of exactly when or where it first struck.