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belief in one god
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monotheistic
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belief in more then one god
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polytheistic
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the records of past deeds
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Karma
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the rebirth of an individuals soul in a different form after death
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reincarnation
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Holy book of the hindus
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vedas
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the first Buddha
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Basic beliefs of Buddhism
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Four noble truths and Eight Fold Path
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In the Bible, the first patriarch and progenitor of the Hebrew people. He was the father of Isaac.
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Abraham
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basic beliefs of the jews
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Ten Commandments
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Jewish Holy book
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Torah
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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.
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new testament
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Arab prophet of islam, began to convert arabia to islam
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Muhammad
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Holy cities of Islam
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Mecca and Medina
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beliefs of muslims
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five pillars of islam
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The sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad.
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Qur'an/Koran
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Muslim house of worship
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Mosque
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A tall slender tower attached to a mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin summons the people to prayer.
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Minaret
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beginning of modern times
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renaissance
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belief in human rights
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humanism
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worldly rather then spiritual
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secular
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father of humanism
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erasmus
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The standard native language of a country or locality
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vernacular
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was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
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copernicus
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the sun is at the center of the solar system
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heliocentric theory
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German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion
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kepler
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Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
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Galileo
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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
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Newton
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discovered the circulation of blood in the human body
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William Harvey
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english dramatist and poet
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Shakespeare
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sculpted david painted sistine chapel
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michelangelo
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father of humanism
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erasmus
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The standard native language of a country or locality
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vernacular
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was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
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copernicus
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the sun is at the center of the solar system
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heliocentric theory
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German astronomer who first stated laws of planetary motion
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kepler
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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
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Newton
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discovered the circulation of blood in the human body
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William Harvey
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english dramatist and poet
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Shakespeare
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Florentine sculptor and painter and architect
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michelangelo
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Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend.
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Galileo
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English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion
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Newton
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discovered circulation of blood
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William Harvey
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dramatist and poet
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Shakespeare
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Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance
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Michelangelo
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mona lisa
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Leonardo da vinci
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The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate
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usury
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is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven.
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indulgences
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German theologian and leader of the Reformation
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Martin Luther
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were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
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95 theses
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kick out of the catholic church
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excommunication
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predestination and expanded protestant movement
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john calvin
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A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
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theocracy
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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).
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henry VIII
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to set apart for specific use
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appropriate
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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
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anglican church
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defeated the spanish armada
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elizabeth I
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the great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588
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Spanish Armada
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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.
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hapsburg family
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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
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holy roman empire
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the last religious war
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thirty years war
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were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France
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huguenots
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gave toleration to protestants
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edict of nantes
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Brought France into 30 Years War on side of Protestants; changed focus from religous to political
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chardinal richelieu
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reformation of the catholic church
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catholic counter reformation
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before martin luther
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huss and wycliffe
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A member of the Society of Jesus.
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jesuits
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an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563
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council of trent
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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
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roman inquisition
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invented the printing press
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gutenburg
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