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Schism | The Great _______ was a split in church leadership which resulted in the Roman Catholic Church having two popes at the same time. |
Babylonian | The seventy-year time period when the papacy remained in Avignon is known as the _______ Captivity. |
Bourges | The Sanction of ________ was a law that stated that all French Church offices were to be filled with men who were recommended by the French king. |
Constance | Council of _______ was assembled in 1414 A.D. to appoint a new pope. |
Dispensations | Written permission from the pope allowing a person to do something that was forbidden by the Bible and the Church |
Pluralism | The practice of holding more than one church office at a time |
Simony | The practice of selling vacant church positions to the highest bidder |
Nepotism | The practice of giving jobs and promotions to relatives instead of to people who are the most qualified for the job |
Penance | An act such as doing a good deed or repeating a prayer that was assigned to a sinner by a priest. |
Lollards | Wycliffe's followers were called ________. |
Transubstantiation | The belief that the bread and wine used in Communion becomes the actual blood and body of Jesus when it is taken by a believer |
Institutes | The most influential book of the Protestant Reformation, written by John Calvin, was the _________ of the Christian Religion. |
Justification | The belief that salvation is a gift from God, and is not based on a person's good works is called ________by faith. |
Predestination | __________ is the belief that God decided which people He would save before He made the world. |
Huguenots | French Protestants who were persecuted during King Francis I's rule. |
Astrolabe | A medieval instrument which navigators used during their early voyages to the New World to determine their latitude |
Demarcation | Line of _______ was an imaginary line drawn by the pope to determine if newly discovered territories would belong to Portugal or Spain. |
Caravel | A small, light sailing ship that was used by the Spanish and Portuguese during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
Northwest | The ________ Passage was a mythical shortcut to the Far East. |