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286039251Huguenotsthe protestant minority0
286039252Edict of Nantes1598 - granted a substantial measure of religious toleration to French Protestants (issued by Henry IV)1
286039253Thirty years wara Catholic-Protestant struggle that began in the Holy Roman Empire but eventually engulfed most of Europe2
286039254Peace of Westphalia1648- allowed states and cities to decide their religion. Ended 30 years war3
286039255Catholic Counter ReformationThe Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in which it tried to reform itself.4
286039256Council of Trentan council of the Roman Catholic Church- Catholics clearified and reaffirmed their unique doctrines and practices5
286039257Jesuitssociety of Jesus6
286039258Martin LutherGerman priest- publicly invited debate about various abuses within the Roman Catholic Church by issuing a document (Ninety-Five Theses)- started protestant reformation7
286039259Reformationimprovement in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices. (new religions created, catholic church changed practices/standards)8
286039260King Henry VIII(1491-1547) King of England, 6 wives, declared England free of Catholic control.9
286039261John (Jean) Calvin(1509-1564) Started calvinism: Predestination determined who would go to heaven at the moment of birth. Believed in strict value system based on hard work, honesty, discipline, and thrift.10
286039262Predestinationbeing determined in advance11
286039263LockeEnglish Philosopher: natural rights,offered principles for constructing a constitutional government, a contract between rulers and ruled that was created by human integrity rather than divinely prescribed12
286039264VoltaireFrench writer: reflected the outlook of the Scientific Revolution. Fighting against religious tolerance13
286039265Rousseauminimized the importance of book learning for the education of children and prescribed instead an immersion in nature, which taught self-reliance and generosity rather than greed and envy fostered by "civilization"14
286039266Darwinlaid out a complex argument that all of life was in flux, that an endless and competitive struggle for survival of millions of years constantly generated new species of plants and animals, while casting others into extinction15
286039267Marxarticulated a view of human history that likewise emphasized change and struggle.16
286039268Freudapplied scientific technologies to the operation of the human mind and emotions and in doing so cast further doubt in enlightenment conceptions of human rationality17
286039269Scientific Revolutionthe era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made, and accepted beliefs were questioned, laid the groundwork for modern science.18
286039270Enlightenment18th century in European history: If human reason could discover the laws that governed the universe, surely it could uncover ways in which humankind might govern itself more effectively19

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