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Flashcards by Nathan Ritz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nathan Ritz
about 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Usury | The charging of interest on loans. |
| Indulgence | A pardon. |
| Heretic | People who did not accept a religion’s teachings. |
| Individualism | Favoring freedom of action for individuals instead of governmental or religious control. |
| Secularism | Attitudes and activities that have no religious or spiritual basis. |
| Simony | Buy positions as priests. |
| Penance | A punishment such as saying many prayers. |
| Liturgy | Form of service. |
| Martin Luther | German priest and professor. |
| John Calvin | Frenchman with his own ideas about Christianity. |
| King Henry VIII | King of England from 1509-1547. |
| Cardinal Richelieu | Helped change the focus of the Thirty Years’ War from a religious to a political conflict. |
| Queen Elizabeth | Had Parliament declare her the head of the Church of England. |
| John Wycliffe | An Englishman, and one of the earliest men to call for reform in the Church. |
| Jan Huss | A Bohemian who openly questioned the corruption of the Catholic Church and attacked the corruption of the clergy. |
| Saint Ignatius of Loyola | Founded the Jesuits. |
| Holy Roman Empire | |
| The Black Death | 1347 and 1350 killed a third of the population in Europe. |
| Which country's nobles resented the Pope's power | England and Germany |
| Martin Luther's three ideas | All faithful Christians are equal before God. The Bible is the ultimate authority for Christians and should be made available to everyone. The Catholic Church believed that only priests could read and interpret the Bible. |
| The 95 Theses | The theses were primarily attacks on the selling of indulgences. |
| Predestination | God already knew each persons fate. |
| What Henry VIII wanted | To have a divorce with his wife because he thought she couldn't have kids anymore and he wanted a son. |
| Religion of Northern Europe | Protestant. |
| Religion of Southern Europe | Catholic. |
| The Hapsburg Dynasty | Most of Germany was officially part of the Holy Roman Empire and was strongly Catholic. |
| The Thirty Years' War | In 1618 this war broke out between the Holy Roman Empire and the Protestant German principalities. |
| The Spanish Armada | England won against Spanish Armada 1588. |
| Huguenots | French Calvinists. |
| The Edict of Nantes | Made Catholicism the official religion but allowed Huguenots to worship freely and participate in politics. |
| The Council of Trent | In the 1540s, reaffirming most Church doctrine and practices. |
| The Inquisition | Famous for relying on torturein their investigations, and executing people by burning them at the stake. |
| The Society of Jesus | Jesuits. |
| Languages the Bible was printed in | English, French, and German. |
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