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Renaissance Vocab
| Annul | To cancel a marriage |
| Calvinism | New version of Christianity started by John Calvin. Believed that salvation comes through faith and that the Bible is truth. |
| Catholic Reformation | Catholic Church worked to fix corruption (abuse of power) |
| Heliocentric | The sun is the center of the solar system |
| Heresy | Religious belief that goes against the church's beliefs |
| Indulgence | Forgiveness for a payment to the Roman Catholic Church |
| 95 Theses | A list of 95 things that Martin Luther believed were wrong with the Roman Catholic Church. He nailed it to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. |
| Patron | A person who gives money to support artists. |
| Predestination | A believe that God chose who will get salvation (this is a believe that Calvinists have). |
| Protestant Reformation | New Christian churches forming that believe differently than the Roman Catholic Church. (Two important ones started by John Calvin and Martin Luther). |
| Recant | To give up on a belief |
| Renaissance | A time in history with lots of new ideas, creativity, and change. It means "rebirth." |
| Secular | not religious |
| Galileo | Italian astronomer who taught the heliocentric model. (Also my favorite scientist) |