This is for a debate...How was Peter the Great a BAD ruler?

Well He was human but I'm not sure I'd call him a bad ruler, I mean chopping your wife's lovers head off and forcing her to look at it every night is a bit extreme. But I think he was a good ruler because he made Russia a modern nation. He put a tax on people wearing beards as many in Europe stopped growing beards at the time. He built Russia's navy up from viewing Britain and Hollands navy. He built the foundations of St Petersburg which was to become the capital for a long time. He instigated a lot of reforms in Russia and made them an important force on the European map which was later to become important in the revolutionary wars. Hope this helped :)

Like Wycliffe and Hus before him, Martin Luther was a monk-scholar. He was also a doctor of theology and a professor of Biblical studies at the University of Wittenberg. Luther made quite a name for himself for his insight into the Bible. Though he had strong opinions on the subject of salvation, or justification, by faith rather than by works or by penance, he had no thought of breaking with the Church of Rome. In fact, the issuing of his theses was his reaction to a specific incident and was not a planned revolt. He was protesting the sale of indulgences. As a whole, the Reformation, as advocated by Luther and his followers, succeeded in breaking from the papal yoke. ..............it changed the course of history of the Western world. “The effect of the Reformation was to elevate the people to a thirst for liberty and a higher and purer citizenship. Wherever the Protestant cause extended, it made the masses more self-asserting,” wrote John F. Hurst in his book Short History of the Reformation. Many scholars believe that Western civilization as we know it today would have been impossible without the Reformation. The highest good the Reformation achieved, no doubt, was that it made the Bible available to the common people in their own language. For the first time, people had before them the whole of God’s Word to read, so that they could be nourished spiritually. In 1618, Comenius took charge of a small parish at Fulnek, which is located some 150 miles east of Prague. At the time, the Catholic Counter-Reformation against Protestantism was well under way in Europe.