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286913673HuguenotsFrench Protestants. The Edict of Nantes (1598) freed them from persecution in France, but when that was revoked in the late 1700s, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled to other countries, including America.0
286913674Edict of Nantes1598, decree promulgated at Nantes by King Henry IV to restore internal peace in France, which had been torn by the Wars of Religion; the edict defined the rights of the French Protestants1
286913675Thirty Years Wars(1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.2
286913676Peace of WestphaliaTreaty that ended the Thirty Years' War (1648) and readjusted the religious and political affairs of Europe.3
286913677Catholic Counter ReformationThe movement in the 16th century within the Catholic church to reform itself as a result of the Protestant Reformation.4
286913678Council of Trentan ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 in response to the Reformation5
286913679JesuitsAlso known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.6
286913680Martin Luthera German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.7
286913681Reformationa religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches8
286913682King Henry VIIIFounder of the church in England and ruled England from 1509-1547. He broke the Catholic church because he couldn't get a divorce9
286913683John CalvinSwiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)10
286913684Predestinationthe belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power11
286913685LockeOffered principles for constructing a constitutional government ( Social Contract Theory)12
286913686VoltaireWrote Philosophic Letters on the English & Treatise on Toleration. He admired the English freedom of the press, and religous toleration. He criticized France because of its royal absolutism and lack of freedom of thought.13
286913687RousseauFrench philosopher from 1712-1778 who believed that people are naturally good, but are corrupted by society14
286913688DarwinEnglish natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection15
286913689Marxfounder of modern communism16
286913690FreudApplied Scientific techniques to the operation of the human mind and emotion changed human condition17
286913691Scientific Revolutionthe era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made, and accepted beliefs were questioned18
286913692EnlightenmentThe intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century in which the philosophes stressed reason, natural law, and progress in their criticism of prevailing social injustices.19

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