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Page 27: Peter the Great through Counter-Reformation

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He was the Russian leader who finally pushed out the Mongols.Ivan III
He tripled the size of Russia.Ivan III
This is the fortress in Moscow, Russia, which is the base for the country's government.The Kremlin
He rebuilt the Kremlin.Ivan III
This helped Ivan III rid Russia of Mongols and triple its size.Firearms
This is the largest country on the world.Russia
Russian term for "King"Tsar
Tsar is the Russian version of this Roman word:Caesar
Main thing that Ivan III (Ivan the Great) did for Russia.He EXPANDED it
Main thing that Peter the Great did for Russia as tsar.He MODERNIZED it.
he was a seven-foot-tall Russian tsar.Peter I
He took eighteen months off to travel in disguise through Europe to learn about their ways.Peter I
Thing Peter I brought into Russia from the West:The printing press, new clothing styles, architectural ideas, and a new western calendar.
He reorganized Russia's military and civil service to be more like Europe's:Peter I
In a war with Sweden, Russain tsar Peter I gained this:Land on the Baltic Sea.
What gaining land on the Baltic Sea gave Russia:An outlet to the Atlantic and a way to sail to Europe.
This is Russia's European-styled capital city:St. Petersburg (guess where the name came from)
Gutenberg improved an invention from this culture:China
Gutenberg used this existing invention to make a printing press:An olive press.
Gutenberg did this for a living:Jeweler
This was the main innovation gutenberg added to the printing press:Metal, moveable type.
Advantage of metal, moveable type:It can be reused hundreds of times and can changed to make different words and pages.
Main result of Gutenberg's printing press:Expanded literacy (more people learned and wanted to learn how to read)
The printing press helped spread the revolutionary religious ideas of this man:Martin Luther (NOT Martin Luther King)
Why the Black Death helped weaken people's faith in the Catholic Church:Prayer did not appear to protect them from disease and death, like the Church said it would.
This philosophy, focusing on our lives on earth right now, rather than heaven is:Humanism
This word, used by Luther, means "arguments:Theses
Luther nailed this to the door of a Catholic church in Germany in 1517:His "95 Theses"
Martin Luther's main gripe with Catholic Church practices:Thier sales of "indulgences"
This was a practice where people with money could pay the church for their sins, getting forgiveness.Indulgences
Luther believed there was little need for Catholic priests or rituals because:He thought that people could have a direct relationship with God, and could now read the Bible for themselves (thanks to the printing press).
Before the printing press, Bibles were all written in this little-spoken language:Latin
Now that people could actually read the Bible in their own languages for themselves, they began to question the Church's positions on:Church practices, science, politics, and society
Martin Luther's rebellion on the Catholic Church is now called:The Protestant Reformation
Origin of the word "Protestant"PROTEST
New Catholic religious order that headed the church's Counter-Reformation:The Jesuits
Good things the Jesuits did:They promoted education, sent missionaries to Asia and America, and the sale of indulgences was stopped (Luther is happy!)
Bad things the Jesuits did during the Counter-Reformation:They burned books that they thought were against their religion, and put suspected enemies of the Church on trial, turturing and imprisoning thousands.
This was a system of Church courts that placed suspected sinners and heretics on trial.The Inquisition
This is a person accused of going against God:A HERETIC
The Inquisition was especially bad in this country:Spain
Christians pushed out these people from Spain, who had ruled a multicutural, multi-religious society for centuries.The Muslim Moors.
Spanish Catholics pushed the Muslim Moors back to this region:North Africa (Morocco today)
The expulsion of the Muslims from Spain is called:The Reconquista (the reconquering)


Valle Crucis 7th and 8th Grades
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