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belief in one god
monotheistic
belief in more then one god
polytheistic
the records of past deeds
Karma
the rebirth of an individuals soul in a different form after death
reincarnation
Holy book of the hindus
vedas
the first Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama
Basic beliefs of Buddhism
Four noble truths and Eight Fold Path
In the Bible, the first patriarch and progenitor of the Hebrew people. He was the father of Isaac.
Abraham
basic beliefs of the jews
Ten Commandments
Jewish Holy book
Torah
The Gospels, Acts, Pauline and other Epistles, and the Book of Revelation, together viewed by Christians as forming the record of the new dispensation belonging to the Church.
new testament
Arab prophet of islam, began to convert arabia to islam
Muhammad
Holy cities of Islam
Mecca and Medina
beliefs of muslims
five pillars of islam
The sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad.
Qur'an/Koran
Muslim house of worship
Mosque
A tall slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin summons the people to prayer.
Minaret
beginning of modern times
renaissance
belief in human rights
humanism
worldly rather then spiritual
secular
father of humanism
erasmus
The standard native language of a country or locality
vernacular
was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
copernicus
the sun is at the center of the solar system
heliocentric theory
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion
kepler
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
Galileo
English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion
Newton
discovered the circulation of blood in the human body
William Harvey
english dramatist and poet
Shakespeare
sculpted david painted sistine chapel
michelangelo
father of humanism
erasmus
The standard native language of a country or locality
vernacular
was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
copernicus
the sun is at the center of the solar system
heliocentric theory
German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion
kepler
English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion
Newton
discovered the circulation of blood in the human body
William Harvey
english dramatist and poet
Shakespeare
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect
michelangelo
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend.
Galileo
English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
Newton
discovered circulation of blood
William Harvey
dramatist and poet
Shakespeare
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance
Michelangelo
mona lisa
Leonardo da vinci
The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate
usury
is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven.
indulgences
German theologian and leader of the Reformation
Martin Luther
were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
95 theses
kick out of the catholic church
excommunication
predestination and expanded protestant movement
john calvin
A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
theocracy
King of England (1509–1547) who succeeded his father, Henry VII. His divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, compelled him to break from the Catholic Church by the Act of Supremacy (1534).
henry VIII
to set apart for specific use
appropriate
The Church of England and the churches in other nations that are in complete agreement with it as to doctrine and discipline and are in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury
anglican church
defeated the spanish armada
elizabeth I
the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588
Spanish Armada
an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spain and the Austrian Empire.
hapsburg family
loosely federated European political entity that began with the papal coronation of the German king Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until Francis II's renunciation of the title at the instigation of Napoleon in 1806
holy roman empire
the last religious war
thirty years war
were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France
huguenots
gave toleration to protestants
edict of nantes
Brought France into 30 Years War on side of Protestants; changed focus from religous to political
chardinal richelieu
reformation of the catholic church
catholic counter reformation
before martin luther
huss and wycliffe
A member of the Society of Jesus.
jesuits
an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563
council of trent
was a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See during the second half of the 16th century, responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of a wide array of crimes
roman inquisition
invented the printing press
gutenburg