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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the diet of

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worms it's what campers resort to when we get really really hungry take a look [Camper with a huge pile of worms]

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at the image right there and here's today's question as a result of the

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meeting illustrated in the image which of the following occurred and here your

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potential answers [mumbling] well yes this meeting was in fact called the diet of

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worms we know what you're thinking but the meeting did not take place in a pile [people stuck in a pile of dirt]

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of dirt actually a diet refers to a deliberate assembly and worms is a city

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in Germany really we're not making this stuff up people funny name for a [Worms shown on a map of Germany]

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historically significant meeting yes something you want to think about when

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you're eating spaghetti probably not well to best answer the question we [children running away from a meal of spaghetti]

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should probably figure out what the point of the meeting was in the first

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place well basically Pope Leo the tenth had recently read Luther's ninety-five

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theses and not so surprisingly given the subject matter found a teensy-weensy few [Pope Leo reading a theses and throws book in the air]

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little problems with it 41 problems to be precise and when the Pope has 41

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problems with your ninety-five theses well you might want to go back to the

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drawing board and so the whole meeting thing served as a place for Luther to [People congregating at a meeting]

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renounce his writings to the Pope. Well that was Leo's plan anyway but spoiler

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alert Luther showed up and did the exact opposite awkward even more awkward was [Pope soeaking to the Pope]

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that many people of the meeting actually fell for that pile of worms allowing for

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the idea to spread throughout Europe and even in the New World well, eliminates B

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and D and following the meeting Martin Luther not related to King jr.

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translated the New Testament into his native tongue German not Italian so that [Luther translating the new testament]

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eliminates C as well. The members have stated the meeting were so impressed by

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Luther's defense of his writings that they began to support him more and more [People waving their arms in support]

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and hey, the thought of gaining ownership over the church's land didn't hurt

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either religious reform became a hot-button issue of the state making A A button labelled hot]

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the correct answer and making this meeting one of the biggest and most

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uncomfortable backfires in human history yea yikes!

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