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6160057998Protestant ReformationBegan in 1517 when a German priest named Martin Luther, and sparked debate about the practices of the Catholic Church.0
6160057999Martin lutherA German priest who sparked the Reformation.1
6160058000Protesetant denominationsLutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, Quaker, Anabaptist2
6160058001HuguenotsThe protestant minority in France. A group of 3000 of them were massacred by them in 1572.3
6160058002Edict of Nantes4
6160058003Catholic Counter-ReformationA movement that reformed the corruption and abuse in the Catholic church.5
6160058004Jesuit"Society of Jesus" a religious order committed to spreading the Catholic Church.6
6160058005Taki Onqoy'Dancing sickness' predicted that Andean deities would overcome the Christian invaders7
6160058006HuacasThe spirit of local gods in the Americas.8
6160058007CofradiasChurch based associations of laypeople.9
6160058008Emperor KangziAn emperor of China who spoke out against missionaries coming into China.10
6160058009AurangzebDuring the reign of this Mughal emperor official policies accommodated Hindus.11
6160058010Ibn Abd ad-WahhabAn Islamic scholar who argued that the weakening Muslim power in the world was a result of deviations from the teachings of Islam.12
6160058011Wang YangmingAn influential Chinese thinker during the Ming Dynasty.13
6160058012Kaozheng'Research based on evidence' a Chinese Confucian system intended to seek truth from facts.14
6160058013Bhakti movementA devotional form of Hinduism.15
6160058014MiribaiA high-caste woman who was a Bhakti poet from northern India.16
6160058015SatiThe old Hindu practice where a widow threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre.17
6160058016GuruA religious teacher in Hinduism.18
6160058017KrishnaA Hindu deity that Miribai thought of as her husband.19
6160058018Guru NanakThe founder of Sikhism who was involved in the bhatki movement.20
6160058019SikhismBlended Muslim and Hindu religion into a distinct religious practice.21
6160058020European UniversitiesWere in paris,Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Salamanca. Established courses of instruction.22
6160058021CopernicusSaid that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth turns on its axis.23
6160058022PtolemyA Greco-Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Alexandria in the 2nd century.24
6160058023EnlightenmentA point where scientific progress swelled and transformed human society.25
6160058024VoltaireA French writer who wrote his Treatise on toleration.26

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