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| 7274917777 | renaissance | the cultural rebirth when there was a surge of interest in art and literature |  | 0 |
| 7274930807 | humanism | the study of classical antiquity |  | 1 |
| 7274933940 | secular | any movement in society directed away from other worldliness to life on earth. In the European Middle Ages there was a strong tendency for religious persons to despise human affairs and to meditate on God and the afterlife |  | 2 |
| 7274933941 | patrons | the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him |  | 3 |
| 7274950743 | predestination | the doctrine that all events have been willed by God |  | 4 |
| 7274955118 | theocracy | a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives; based on religion |  | 5 |
| 7274962799 | indulgence | the remission of a temporal punishment brought by a sin |  | 6 |
| 7278061690 | vernacular | the everyday language of a region or country |  | 7 |
| 7278070820 | protestant | a member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation |  | 8 |
| 7278073630 | reformation | a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the pope's authority |  | 9 |
| 7278077422 | Lorenzo de Medici | an Italian statesmen who served as the ruler of the Florentine Republic; the greatest patron of the Renaissance. |  | 10 |
| 7278079799 | Baldassare Castiglione | the count of Casatico and an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier, and author during the Renaissance; author of the Book of the Courtier. |  | 11 |
| 7278079800 | Michaelangelo | an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art |  | 12 |
| 7278082516 | Leonardo da Vinci | an famous Italian painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, engineer, and scientist; one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance; painted the famous Mona Lisa |  | 13 |
| 7278083860 | Francesco Petrarch | an Italian Renaissance poet and scholar; one of the first humanists; thought to have sparked the Renaissance by his rediscovery of Cisco's Letters |  | 14 |
| 7278112355 | Niccolo Machiavelli | an Italian politician, diplomat , historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer during the Renaissance; thought of as the father of political science |  | 15 |
| 7278112356 | William Shakespeare | the greatest writer in the English language; his works included the classic plays Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar. |  | 16 |
| 7278119943 | Johann Gutenberg | a 15th century German printer who invented the moveable-printing press; introduced printing techniques that allowed for documents and texts to be produced more quickly |  | 17 |
| 7278123053 | Thomas More | a saint in the Roman Catholic Church; an English lawyer, social philosopher, and author, and statesman; a Renaissance humanist |  | 18 |
| 7278123054 | Peace of Augsburg | a treaty between Charles the Fifth and the Schmalkaldic League; a temporary settlement in the issue of the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire that allowed princes to choose whether or not their subjects would follow Lutheran or Catholic teachings |  | 19 |
| 7278125683 | Edict of Worms | a decree issued in 1521 by Charles the Fifth that forbid support of Martin Luther |  | 20 |
| 7278125684 | Martin Luther | a German professor of philosophy, priest, and monk who was a leader in the Reformation movement against the Catholic Church |  | 21 |
| 7278127664 | John Knox | a Scottish writer, minister, and theologian who acted as a leader during the Reformation; the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland |  | 22 |
| 7278127663 | John Calvin | a French theologian, pastor, and reformer during the Reformation; his beliefs are the basis of Calvinism. |  | 23 |
| 7278129161 | Anabaptist | a Protestant group that believed in baptizing only those persons who were old enough to decide to be a Christian and believed in the separation of church and state |  | 24 |
| 7278129162 | Catholic Reformation | movement in which the Roman Catholic church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant Reformation |  | 25 |
| 7278131619 | Council of Trent | a meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III, to rule on doctrines criticized by Protestant reformers |  | 26 |
| 7278131620 | Jesuits | members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola. |  | 27 |
| 7278138349 | Henry VIII | the King of England from 1509 until his death; the second Tudor monarch of England; brought England into the Protestant Reformation |  | 28 |
