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| 625470685 | Northern Christian Humanists | Renaissance thinkers whose major goal was the reform of Christianity. Believed in educating everyone in a Christian way to create an inward religious feeling. Wanted the Bible translated into vernacular languages. Desiderius Erasmus was most influential - prepared way for the reformation; believed in an emphasis on education. Thomas More (wrote Utopia) believed in an emphasis on government service. | 0 | |
| 625470686 | Martin Luther | 95 Thesis, posted in 1517, led to religious reform in Germany, denied papal power and absolutist rule. Claimed there were only 2 sacraments: baptism and communion, and was against all others. | 1 | |
| 625470687 | Edict of Worms | declared Martin Luther an outlaw within the empire due to his not revoking his beliefs; his works were to be burned and Luther himself captured and delivered to the emperor. | 2 | |
| 625470688 | Peace of Augsburg | It was turning point to the historic reformation and it ended the German religious warfare in 1555. It declared that Lutheranism was a legal, permanent religion along with Catholicism. It also stated that German princes could determine the religion over his subjects. | 3 | |
| 625470689 | Anabaptists | A radical Protestant sect that believed only adults could make a free choice regarding religion; they also advocated pacifism, separation of church and state, and democratic church organization. | 4 | |
| 625470690 | Henry VIII | (1491-1547) King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Henry established the Church of England in 1532. | 5 | |
| 625470691 | The Council of Trent | An assembly of high church officials summoned by the Catholic Church to clarify doctrine and address reform in response to the challenges raised by the Protestant Reformation. | 6 | |
| 625470692 | The Edict of Nantes | recognized Huguenot religious freedoms and rights of Protestants to participate in French public institutions, and was promulgated by Henry IV and provided for religious toleration in England. | 7 | |
| 625470693 | Motives for exploration | curiosity, wealth, fame, national pride, religion, foreign goods, faster and cheaper trade routes | 8 | |
| 625470694 | Prince Henry the Navigator | Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 9 | |
| 625470695 | Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. (The same year HRE Charles V became empreor.) Magellan was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | 10 | |
| 625470696 | The Aztecs | -A.D. 1325-1521 -Central Mexico -Conquered much of central Mexico -The Toltecs preceded the Aztecs -The Aztecs built a great city (Tenochtitlan) and ruled an empire -Religion and war dominated Aztec life -Rich mythological and religious traditions -Architecturally accomplished (city planning, Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, temples and palaces) -Artistically advanced | 11 | |
| 625470697 | Encomienda | A grant of authority over a population of Amerindians in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap labor and periodic payments of goods by the Amerindians. It obliged the grant holder to Christianize the Amerindians. | 12 |
