World History Renaissance Vocabulary and Terms – Flashcards
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A period of time in history
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Renaissance
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A french word that means rebirth
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renaissance
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A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. It has the ability to act on its own.
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City State
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High Class/Wealthy
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Patricians
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A ruler who treats his people in a cruel manner
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Tyrant
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A financial supporter of the arts
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Patron
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Low Class/Poor
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Plebes
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An intellectual movement that focused on the secular world. It also focused on education
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Humanism
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What the humanists study - Rhetoric - Literature - Poetry - History
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Humanities
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People who practice humanism
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Humanists
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A focus on things outside of the church
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Secular World
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A person who serves in a royal court
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Courtier
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Questionable behavior
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Immoral
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The major leaders of the church
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Clergy
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A regular/ordinary language of the people
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Vernacular
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The perfect society - No war - No crime - Everyone is educated - Everyone has a job
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Utopia
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Someone who searches for Utopia
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Utopian
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A disease that effects a huge area
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Pandemic
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They poke fun at people
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Humorists
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To improve; change
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Reform
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A Christian who isn't Catholic
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Protestant
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Taxes, charges, tuition
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Fees
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Forgiveness for your sins
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Indulgences
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The study of religion
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Theology
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To take back
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Recant
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Something that goes against the teachings of what the church accepts
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Heresy
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A person who is spreading the heresy
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Heretic
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To be kicked out of the church
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Excommunicated
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Formal congress
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Diet
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A government run by religious leaders
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Theocracy
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People who can do nothing about when they will die because God has already determined who will live and who will die
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Predestination
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To have a marriage made as if it never happened; to cancel
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Annul
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The next in line to the throne
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Heir
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The sun is at the center of the universe
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Heliocentric
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Oval shaped, not quite circular
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Elliptical
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Being able to think and figure out problems
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Human Reasoning
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The study of the past
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History
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Supremacy
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Protestant Reformation was a time when many new religions were formed due to dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church
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Protestant Reformation
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Justification by Faith was and idea that Martin Luther had saying that you should be saved by faith only and not by how good of a person you were.
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Justification by Faith
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The pope is the most supreme
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Papal Supremacy
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When King Henry VIII took over the catholic church (1530)
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Act of Supremacy
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Peace of Augsburg was the when Charles the V gave the people the option to choose between Catholic and Lutheran
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Peace of Augsburg
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It means that you can do whatever is necessary to reach a certain goal. It is what we get out of the Prince (written by Niccolo Machiavelli)
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"The End justifies the Means"
