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Reformation Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Indulgences | payments to the church to forgive a person's sins |
Secular | not spiritual, of the physical world |
Corruption | dishonest behavior by powerful people |
Pardon | to forgive |
Heresy | statements against the church |
Excommunicate | to force out of |
Pilgrimage | a long, difficult trip |
Controversial | a topic that creates disagreement |
Machiavelli | Italian Humanist who wrote The Prince |
Martin Luther | leader of the Protestant Reformation |
Erasmus | Italian Humanist who taught that religion should come from within a person |
95 Thesis | list of arguments against the the Catholic Church |
Catholic Church | believed that the Pope had the most power |
Protestant Church | believed that God had the most power |
Reformation | movement that led to the beginning of the Lutheran Church |
The Prince | a handbook about how to be an effective leader. |