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ReformationVocab
Jasmine Romo
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Respond | To react to something that has been said or done. |
| Publication | Book or other printed work. |
| Error | Something incorrect or incorrectly done. |
| Minor | Small and not very important or serious. |
| Parliament | Group of people who make up a country 's laws. |
| Finance | To provide a large amount of money to pay for something. |
| Contrast | Difference between people, ideas, or situations that are being compared. |
| Individual | Considered separately from other people of things in the same group |
| Reformation | A religious movement that began in the 1500's to reform the Catholic Church. |
| Martin Luther | He was a German Monk born in 1483. When he was a young man he was caught in a powerful thunderstorm and vowed if he were to survive he would become a monk. |
| Indulgence | Pardons of Sins. |
| John Calvin | A french scholar, he was born in France 1509, a generation after Luther. He published "The Institutes of Christian Religion". |
| Predestination | The idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation. |
| Theocracy | A government ruled by religious leaders. |
| William Tyndale | He made a English translation of the New Testament of the Bible. He wad tried for heresy and burned at the stake. |
| Counter-Reformation | The movement to strengthen the teachings and structure of the Catholic Church. |
| Jesuits | The most influential of the new religious orders. |
| Ignatius Loyola | He was born in northern Spain 1491. When he was young he entered the military service and was seriously injured. He vowed to live a religious life. |
| Council of Trent | Sought ways to revive the moral authority of the Catholic Church and to stop the spread of Protestantism. |
| Henry VIII | He was the king of England, he wrote a book criticizing Luther's ideas. He married Anne Boleyn without the churches approval. |
| Annulment | Is an official action ending a marriage. |
| Act of Supremacy | It made the king leader of the Church of England. |
| Henry IV | Soon after the civil war ended Henry assumed to the throne. In 1598, he was proclaimed the Edict of Nantes. |
| Edict | Is an official public order made by a king or another authority. |
| Philip II | He was the Catholic ruler of Spain. He used the Inquisition against Protestants. He financed the troops to fight in Europe against the Protestants. |
| Armada | Fleet of Ships. |
| Absolute Monarchy | A ruler has complete power over the government and its subjects. |
| Divine Right of Kings | A theory in which states that a king's right to rule comes directly from god. |
| Louis XIV | He was Frances king, ruling from 1643 to 1715. He Installed troops in major towns to keep order. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | Is a form of government in which a king's or queen's power is limited by a constitution. |
| Federalism | A form of government in which power is shared between local and national levels. |