| A | B |
|---|
| Renaissance | means rebirth |
| predestination | Calvinist notion that God decided your destiny even before you were born |
| Petrarch | founder of Humanism |
| vernacular | writing in one's own language |
| theocracy | a government led by the religious leaders |
| Ignatius Loyola | founder of the Jesuits |
| Michelangelo | painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | painted the Mona Lisa |
| Huguenots | French protestants |
| Machiavelli | wrote The Prince |
| Martin Luther | He began the Protestant Reformation |
| Sir Thomas More | author of Utopia |
| Calvinism | protestant religion that believed in predestination |
| William Shakespeare | famous English author |
| Henry VIII | he formed the Anglican Church in England |
| Spanish Armada | Sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to punish England |
| Humanism | the philosophy that supported the Renaissance |
| Cervantes | wrote Don Quioxte |
| Medici | wealthy family in Florence that supported the arts |
| Heretic | anyone who opposed the teachings of the Catholic Church |
| 95 Theses | Martin Luther nailed these to the church door in Wittenburg |
| Peace of Augsburg | This ended the Thirty Years' War |
| Johann Gutenberg | reinvented movable type |
| secular | things concerned with the non-religious world |
| Jesuits | this order was founded to help stop the spread of Protestantism |
| Council of Trent | This ruled the the Catholic Church's interpretation of the Bible was final |
| Excommunication | to be expelled from the Catholic Church |
| Italy | the birthplace of the Renaissance |
| simony | the sale of Church offices |
| nepotism | the hiring of relatives |
| Galileo | discovered the telescope |
| the Inquisition | a special Catholic church court that tried heretics |
