Chapter 2 US History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Feudalism | A medial European social system in which land was divided into hundreds of small holdings |
| Renaissance | The intellectual and artistic flowering in Europe during the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries sparked by a revival of interest in classical antiquity |
| Reconquista | The long struggle (ending in 1492) during which Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian peninsula from Muslim occupiers |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty negotiated by the pope in 1494 to resolve the territorial claims of Spain and Portugal |
| Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church, initiated in 1517, calling for a return to what he understood to be the purer practices and beliefs of the early church |
| Predestination | The belief that God decided at the moment of Creation which humans would achieve salvation |
| Protestants | All European supporters of religious reform under Charles V's Holy Roman Empire |
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