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Chapter 20
The Renaissance and the Reformation
Term | Definition |
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Renaissance | a renewal or rebirth of interested in Greek and Roman arts. |
secular | related to worldly things |
urban | having to do with a town or city |
mercenary | a soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country |
diplomacy | the practice of conducting negotiations between countries |
humanism | belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is a path to knowledge |
Reformation | a religious movement that produced a new form of Christianity known and Protestantism |
indulgence | a pardon, or forgiveness, of a sin |
predestination | a religious belief that God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will not |
annul | to declare invalid |
seminary | a school of religious training |
heresy | a religious belief that contradicts what the church says is true |