Chapter 16 AP World History Flashcards
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3773000622 | Bhakti | Hindu devotional movement that flourished in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine. | 0 | |
3773003000 | Counter-Reformation | a movement of the Catholic Church, in reaction to the Reformation, in which Catholic leaders worked to correct abuses, to clarify and defend Catholic teachings, to condemn what they saw as Protestant errors, and to win back members | 1 | |
3773005180 | Nicholas Copernicus | He believed in a heliocentric, or sun-centered, conception of the universe. He argued that the Sun was at the center of the universe. The planets revolved around the sun. | 2 | |
3773006093 | Council of Trent | 1545-1563 - tried to address the problems that Luther and other Protestants pointed out and used as fuel to further their reforms | 3 | |
3773011962 | Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 English naturalist and scientist whose theory of evolution through natural selection was first published in 'On The Origin of the Species" in 1859. | 4 | |
3773013302 | deism | A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets. | 5 | |
3773015328 | European Enlightenment | European intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society. | 6 | |
3773017490 | Galieo Galilei | Among many things, used the empirical method to prove scientific ideas, proved the heliocentric theory, improved upon and used the telescope | 7 | |
3773026654 | 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. | 8 | |
3773028119 | 95 Theses | Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the chuch door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation | 9 | |
3773029997 | Protestant Reformation | A religious movement of the 16th century (Martin Luther) that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | 10 | |
3773033094 | Kaozheng | A notion of "researched based evidence" hat occurred in China as a foil to Neo-Confucian orthodoxy. | 11 | |
3773034403 | 30 Years War | (1618-1648) This Bourbon vs. Habsburg War resulted from a conflict between the Protestant Union and the Catholic League in the Holy Roman Empire; fought primarily to solidify protestantism as well as expand the power of France throughout western Europe | 12 | |
3773041501 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 13 | |
3773044318 | Voltaire | (1694-1778) French philosopher. He believed that freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the intolerance of the Catholic Church. | 14 |