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284465732HumanismThe doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason, a cultural movement of the Renaissance0
284465733Johannes GutenburgHe invented the printing press around 1450 A.D.1
284465734Martin LutherGerman theologian who led the Reformation, also wrote the 95 Thesis2
284465735ProtestantismThe theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation3
284465736Anglican ChurchForm 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 death4
284465737Jean CalvinFrench 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 America5
284465738Catholic ReformationReligious 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
284465739JesuitsAlso 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
284465740Thirty 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
284465741Witchcraft HysteriaReflected resentment against poor, uncertanties about religious truth; resulted in death of over 100,000 Europeans between 1590 and 1650; particularly common in Protestant areas9
284465742Absolute Monarchya system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power10
2844657431517Luther began the Protestant Reformation, posting the 95 Theses11
2844657441521Diet of Worms (Ick!)12
2844657451545Council of Trent13
2844657461555Peace of Augsburg ends religious war in Germany; Charles V abdicates14
2844657471598Edict of Nantes ends French religious wars15
2844657481648Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War16

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