Unit 2 review terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Renaissance | "Rebirth" of classical knowledge, "birth" of the modern world. |
| Italian city states | Were a remarkable political phenomenon of small independent states in the northern Italian peninsula between the tenth and fifteenth centuries? |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance artist especially known for his sculpture. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance artist who also did studies of anatomy and invented many machines. |
| Shakespeare | Renaissance writer and port and playwright. |
| Humanism | People battening there self's. |
| Erasmus | Renaissance writer and humanist philosopher. |
| Usury | The practice of charging interest considered to be a sin by the Catholic Church. |
| indulgences | A certificate of forgiveness for sin that could be bought. |
| Martin Luther | Views: salvation by faith alone, Bible as the unlimited authority all numbers equal before God. Actions: as theses, birth of the protestant church. |
| 95 theses | People who left the Catholic Church and followed one of the new churches created during the Reformation. |
| protestant | any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church. |
| John Calvin | Views: predestination, faith revealed by living a righteous life, work ethnic. Actions: Expansion of the protest and movement. |
| Predestination | The belief that God has determined in advance who will be saved (the elect) and who will damned (the reprobate). |
| King Henery VIII | Views: Dismissed the authority of the pope in Rome. Actions: Divorced; broke with Rome; headed the national church in England; appropriated lands and wealth of the Roman Catholic Church in England |
| Anglican | National Church of England, created by Henery VIII and made official Elizabeth I. |
| Holy Roman | Was the elected monarch ruling over the holy roman empire. |
| Thirty Year War | A war during the reformation that started over religion but was made more political by cardinal Richelieu of France. |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England. Successor of Mary I daughter of Henery VIII and Anne Boleyn. |
| Reformation | A time when the power of the Catholic Church was challenged and new Christian churches were created. |
| Huguenots | A French protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| Edict of Nantes | A public command in France that gave Protestants freedom of worship. |
| Cardinal Richelieu | French minister who interfered with the 30 year war. |
| Catholic Counter Reformation | Reformation Catholic Church mounted a series of reforms and reasserted its authority. |
| Society of Jesus | (The Jesuits) was founded to spread catholic doctrine around the world during the Counter Reformation. |
| Inquisition | .Established to reinforce catholic doctrine; often did so by arresting the torturing heretics. |
| secularism | Indifference to or rejection to religion of religious consideration. |
| individualism | The principle or habit of or belief in independence thought or action. |
| religious tolerance | To extend religious freedom to people of all religious traditions. |
| printing press | Helped spread different ideas to different countries and it translated the bible in Latin. |
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