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30 Cards in this Set
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Mercantile |
Relate to commerce or trade |
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Renaissance |
Good cultural revival that swept through Europe from the 1300s through the 1500s |
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Patron |
Someone who gives money or other support |
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Humanism |
Cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the classical works. |
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Secularism |
View that religion need not to be the centre of human affairs |
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Vernacular |
Everyday spoken language |
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Individualism |
The belief that individual was more important than the larger community |
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Utopia |
Imaginary Ideal place |
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Satire |
Sort of writing that uses sarcasm |
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Engraving |
art form in which the artist etches a design on a metal plate with a needle and acid |
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To censor |
To remove material from published works |
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Proportion |
Way of balancing the parts of a design to make a pleasing whole |
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Linear perspective |
Mathematical system for representing 3 dimensional space on a flat surface |
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Sonnet |
Poem of 14 lines with a fixed rhyming pattern |
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Picaresque |
Refers to a series of comic episodes usually involving a mischievous character |
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Reformation |
A religious movement that gained momentum in the 1500s with the aim to reform the Catholic Church |
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Indulgences |
A kind of paper that the church sold said that if you buy it your sins will be forgiven |
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Recant |
To withdraw |
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Sect |
Subgroup of a major religious group |
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Predestination |
The idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation |
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Theocracy |
Government ruled by religious leaders |
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Counter reformation |
The movement to strengthen the teaching of the Catholic church |
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Jesuits |
One of the most influential of the new religious orders |
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Ghetto |
Practise of keeping Jews separate from the population |
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Annulment |
Official action canceling a marriage |
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Act of supremacy |
A law that made the monarch the leader of the church in England |
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Hugueots |
French protestants |
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Armada |
fleet of ships |
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Edict |
Official public order made by a king or another |
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Federalism |
A form of government in which power is shared between local and national levels |
