Revolutions In my opinion historical change is due to revolution. One definition of revolution is a group of successive events or changes. Revolution has veen the cause of historical changtes since the beginning oof time. Revolutions have been fought for many different reasons. In the early 1500's, religion was a main issue of change. Catholicism wss the accepted religion but many people didn't agree with the catholic doctrine. People such as Martin Luther started a movement that would seperate from the catholic church and became Lutheran. The Lutheran belief was that you were not saved through good works, but through faith in the