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belief in one and only one God.
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monotheistic
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belief in more than one God.
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polytheistic
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the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence.
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karma
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rebirth in new bodies or forms of life.
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reincarnation
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The Hindi Bible.
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vedas
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Indian philosopher & founder of Buddhism
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Siddhartha Gautama
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1. Life means suffering.
2. The origin of suffering is attachment. 3. The cessation of suffering is attainable. 4. The path to the cessation of suffering. describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. |
Four Noble Truths & eight fold path
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He is widely regarded as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and the founder of monotheism.
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abraham
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the ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Sinai
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ten commandments
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the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish Scripture and other sacred literature and oral
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Torah
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the second part of the Christian Bible comprising the canonical Gospels and Epistles and also the book of Acts and book of Revelation.
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New Testiment
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Arab prophet & founder of Islam
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Muhammad
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destination of pilgrims in the Islamic world
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Mecca & Medina
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Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad;
Establishment of the daily prayers; Concern for and almsgiving to the needy; Self-purification through fasting; and The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able. |
Five Pillars of Islam
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the book composed of sacred writings accepted by Muslims as revelations made to Muhammad by Allah through the angel Gabriel
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Qur'an / Koran
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a building used for public worship by Muslims
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Mosque
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a tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin
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Minaret
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the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science
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Renaisaance
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a philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason
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Humanism
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not overtly or specifically religious
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Secular
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Father of Humanism
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Erasmus
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using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
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Vernacular
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Polish astronomer
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Copernicus
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the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe
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Heliocentric theory
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German astronomer
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Kepler
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Italian astronomer & physicist
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Galileo
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was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian and one of the most influential men in human history
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Newton
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an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.
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William Harvey
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English dramatist & poet
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shakespeare
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Italian sculptor, painter, architect, & poet. sculpted 'David' and painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel
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Michealangelo
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italian painter, sculptor, architect, & engineer. painted 'Mona Lisa'
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Leonardo da Vinci
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the lending of money with an interest charge for its use
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Usury
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remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned
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Indulgences
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the third Monday in January observed as a legal holiday in some states of the United States
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Martin Luther
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God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God.
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Justification by Faith
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widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
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95 theses
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an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership
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excommunication
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pre-destination
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john calvin
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before the creation God determined the fate of the universe throughout all of time and space.
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predestination
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government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
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theocracy
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King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death.
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henry VIII
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defeated spanish armada
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elizabeth I
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to firmly establish the English monarch as the official head of the Church of England, supplanting the power of the Catholic pope in Rome.
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act of supremecy
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to take or make use of without authority or right
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appropriate
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Became a national church throughout the Birish Isles under Elizabeth 1
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angelican church
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defeated by queen elizabeth
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spanish armada
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family that continued to support the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation.
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Hapsburg Family
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political entity of lands in western and central Europe
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holy roman empire
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one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily (though not exclusively) in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval warfare also reached overseas and shaped the colonial formation of future nations
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thirty years war
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members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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Huguenots
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grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic
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edict of nantes
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known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister" or "First Minister".
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chardinal Richelieu
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the church’s response to the events of the Protestant Reformation.
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catholic counter reformation
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challenged church before martin luther
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huss
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challenged church before martin luther
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wycliffe
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played an important part in determining the outcome of the Counter-Reformation.
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council of trent
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Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called-
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jesuits
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disambiguation
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roman catholic inquisition
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invented the printing press
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gutenberg
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