| A | B |
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| Renaissance | world means rebirth. Period after Medieva. |
| classics | ideas, culture, education of Ancient Greek and Roman ideas and culture |
| humanism | an interest in the classics/focus on individuals/interest in all humans being the best they can be |
| secular | non-religious, Renaissance art was often secular |
| sonnet | 14 line poem about 1 topic. shakespeare is famous for writing them |
| Printing Press | invented by Johannes Gutenberg. made books cheaper, spread Renaissance ideas |
| indulgence | a certificate one could buy from the church that would lessen one's sin. A way to buy forgiveness |
| usury | leading money and then charging lots of interest. the Catholic Church was against this. this made merchants turn against Catholicism because they wanted to be able to charge usury. |
| laity | church members not in the clergy |
| Catholic Church hierarchy | god,pope,cardinal,archbishop,bishop,priest,laity |
| 95 Theses | Luther's complaints against the church, nailed to the church door |
| Lutheran Church | the 1st protestant donomination, Luther's followers |
| predestination | Calvin's teaching that God chooses who goes to heaven |
| Anglican Church | church created in England by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I/it was a combination of Protestant and Catholic. controlled by English gov't not the Pope |
| Inquisition | church court set up to punish Protestant heretics |
| Jesuits | society started by igantius/started Catholic schools all aover the world |
| Italian City-States | where the Renaissance began-they were wealty from trade |
| Switzerland | Home of John Calvin and Calvinism |
| England | home of the Anglican Church |
| Holy Roman Empire (mostly Germany) | where the Protestant Reformation began/home of Luther/30 Years' War |
