What changed with the Protestant Reformation?

The Reformation in Europe is usually dated from the posting of Martin Luther's famous 95 theses, which he notoriously pinned to a church door in 1517. Luther's concerns were that the Catholic Church was moving further and further away in its practices from what was actually written in the Bible. He took particular issue with the great wealth of the Church and its tendency to sell "indulgences," or promises that people would get into heaven if they donated large amounts of money to the Church. He felt that the people were being misled and led a call to have the Bible translated into the languages people actually spoke, rather than mass being held in Latin. Before the Reformation, many people did not understand what was written in the Bible, as they could not read Latin and had to take the word of their priests as doctrine. After the Reformation, the printing press had helped revolutionize Christianity, England had broken away from the Catholic Church as a result of Henry VIII's break with the Pope, and common people were able to read the Bible in their own languages and interpret the actual written word of Jesus according to their personal understanding.
The Reformation was also the cause of many wars, particularly in Germany and England, especially after the Catholic Church began to hit back against those who had split from it. By the end of the Reformation, however, the greatest change was that the Bible was no longer a text to be held at a distance from the people: people's religion became more personal to them.