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| 266304252 | Absolutism | a form of government where the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by divine right and was therefore responsible only to God | 0 | |
| 266304253 | Armada | Spanish fleet of ships, failed invasion of England in 1588 | 1 | |
| 266304254 | Baroque | a style that dominated Western painting, sculpture, architecture and music from about 1580 to 1730, generally characterized by elaborate ornamentation and dramtic effects | 2 | |
| 266304255 | Christian humanism | believed in the ability of human beings to reason and improve themselves through analysis of classical and especially Christianity antiquity, Erasmus was the most famous proponent | 3 | |
| 266312429 | Consistory | Geneva special body for enforcing moral discipline, established by Calvin | 4 | |
| 266312430 | Constitutional (limited) monarchy | a system of government in which the monarch is limited by a representative assembly and by the duty to rule in accordance with the laws of the land | 5 | |
| 266312431 | Divine-Right manarchy | a monarchy based on the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are reponsible to no one except God | 6 | |
| 266312432 | Gentry | well-to-do English landowners below the level of the nobility | 7 | |
| 266312433 | Huguenots | French Calvinists | 8 | |
| 266312434 | Indulgence | the remission of part or all of temporal punishment in purgatory due to sin, granted for charitable contrubutions and other good deeds | 9 | |
| 266312435 | Joint-Stock Company | individuals bought shares in a company and recieved dividends | 10 | |
| 266312436 | Justification of faith | the primary doctrine of the Protestant Reformation; taught that humans are saved not through good works, but by the grace of God, bestowed freely though the sacrifice of Jesus | 11 | |
| 266312437 | Mercantillism | economic theory, prosperity of a nation depended on a plentiful supply of bullion through a favorable balance of trade | 12 | |
| 266312438 | New Monarchies | the governments of France, England and Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, wehre thr rulers were successful in reestablishing or extending centralized royal authority, suppressing th enobility, controlling the church and insisting upon the loyaly of all peoples living in their territories | 13 | |
| 266312439 | Presdestination | the belief, associated with Calvinism, that God, as a consequence of his foreknowledge of all events, has predetermined those who will be saved and those who will be damened | 14 | |
| 266312440 | Puritans | English Protestants inspired by Calvinist theology who wished to remove all traces of Catholicism from the Church of England | 15 |
