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Reformation Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |