| A | B |
|---|
| indulgences | people could buy a pardon releasing them from punishment due for a sin |
| corruption | guilty of dishonest practices |
| predestination | belief that God has already decided everything - including who will be saved |
| Jesuits | members of the society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola |
| dissenter | someone who opposes or disagrees with something |
| secularism | focus on worldly rather than religious things |
| individualism | focus on rights and independent actions of each person |
| tolerance | general acceptance of many differing views |
| literacy | ability to read, write and think critically about written word |
| nobility | group of people who are higher class because of the family they were born into |
| usury | lending money at a high interest rate |
| John Calvin | founder of the Calvinist tradition believed that Salvation came through predestination, worked to spread the Protestant Movement |
| Martin Luther | founder of the Lutheran tradition, believed that salvation came by faith alone, famous for writing the 95 theses |
| 95 theses | Martin Luther's protests against abuses by the Catholic Church, like indulgences |
| King Henry VIII | responsible for the Church of England's split with the Roman Catholic Church |
| Queen Elizabeth I | re-established the Anglican Church, and is responsible for expansion, colonialism and victory over the Spanish armada |
| printing press | invented by Johann Gutenberg, a method of mass producing books by arranging words on blocks, inking them and pressing them against paper to print pages of books |
