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Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution

Terms in this set (15)

Pandemic
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.
Black Death/Bubonic Plague
This killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years. The epidemic spanned from China to England to North Africa, transmitted along the Silk Road and other trade routes.
Renaissance
"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
urban
in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.
rural
relating to farm areas and life in the country
Humanism
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Secular
Non-religious
Reformation
A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
Indulgences are
penance from sin, Sold by pope/church
Protestant
a member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation
Feudalism
A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
Serfs/Peasants
* Lowest class of Feudalism
* The people who "worked" the lands but had to give the Lords the majority of the profits from the land
* Revolted and demanded more freedom after Black Plague due to the lack of Knights available - the start of Renaissance thinking
Knights
in the Middle Ages, lesser noble who served as a mounted warrior for a lord
Thesis
the primary position taken by a writer or speaker
Excommunicate
cast out from the church
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