284465732 | Humanism | The doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason, a cultural movement of the Renaissance | 0 | |
284465733 | Johannes Gutenburg | He invented the printing press around 1450 A.D. | 1 | |
284465734 | Martin Luther | German theologian who led the Reformation, also wrote the 95 Thesis | 2 | |
284465735 | Protestantism | The theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation | 3 | |
284465736 | Anglican Church | Form of Protestantism set up in England after 1534; established by Henry VIII with himself as head, at least in part to obtain a divorce from his first wife; became increasingly Protestant following Henry's death | 4 | |
284465737 | Jean Calvin | French Protestant (16th century) who stressed doctrine of predestination; established center of his group at Swiss canton of Geneva; encouraged ideas of wider access to government, wider public education; Calvinism spread from Switzerland to northern Europe and North America | 5 | |
284465738 | Catholic Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline. (p. 447) | 6 | |
284465739 | Jesuits | Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism. | 7 | |
284465740 | Thirty Years War | (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. | 8 | |
284465741 | Witchcraft Hysteria | Reflected resentment against poor, uncertanties about religious truth; resulted in death of over 100,000 Europeans between 1590 and 1650; particularly common in Protestant areas | 9 | |
284465742 | Absolute Monarchy | a system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power | 10 | |
284465743 | 1517 | Luther began the Protestant Reformation, posting the 95 Theses | 11 | |
284465744 | 1521 | Diet of Worms (Ick!) | 12 | |
284465745 | 1545 | Council of Trent | 13 | |
284465746 | 1555 | Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates | 14 | |
284465747 | 1598 | Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars | 15 | |
284465748 | 1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War | 16 |
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