Renaissance/Reformation
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- Renaissance
- Period from 1350 to 1600 in which European scholars revived the learning of ancient Greece and Rome
- Humanities
- Subjects taught in ancient Greek and Roman schools, including grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history; threatened by Renaissance scholars
- Jesuits
- Catholic Missionary group established to bring Christianity to North and South America
- Vernacular
- Everyday language of the people
- Ignatius Loyala
- Leader of the Jesuits
- Inquisition
- A Catholic court established to judge heretics and excommunicate protestants.
- Predestination
- Idea of Anabaptists that God had already chosen who would be saved
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Invented from the printing press in 1450
- Excommunication
- Exclusion from the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church
- Nuclear Family
- Family made up of parents, children and occasionally grandparents
- Protestant Reformation
- Christian movement that started with Lutheranism in the middle ages that broke from the Catholic Church
- Indulgences
- Reduction of the punishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory; often granted by medieval and Renaissance popes
- Justification by Faith
- Believeing something is right based on religious beliefs
- Seminary
- School to train and teach priests
- Extended Family
- Large family group usually made up of husband and wife, their unmarried children, their married sons, and the sons wives and children
- Simony
- The buying and selling of religious offices during the middle ages