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belief in one and only one God.
monotheistic
belief in more than one God.
polytheistic
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.
karma
rebirth in new bodies or forms of life.
reincarnation
The Hindi Bible.
vedas
Indian philosopher & founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
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
He is widely regarded as the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and the founder of monotheism.
abraham
the ethical commandments of God given according to biblical accounts to Moses by voice and by writing on stone tablets on Mount Sinai
ten commandments
the body of wisdom and law contained in Jewish Scripture and other sacred literature and oral
Torah
the second part of the Christian Bible comprising the canonical Gospels and Epistles and also the book of Acts and book of Revelation.
New Testiment
Arab prophet & founder of Islam
Muhammad
destination of pilgrims in the Islamic world
Mecca & Medina
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
the book composed of sacred writings accepted by Muslims as revelations made to Muhammad by Allah through the angel Gabriel
Qur'an / Koran
a building used for public worship by Muslims
Mosque
a tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin
Minaret
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
Renaisaance
a philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason
Humanism
not overtly or specifically religious
Secular
Father of Humanism
Erasmus
using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
Vernacular
Polish astronomer
Copernicus
the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe
Heliocentric theory
German astronomer
Kepler
Italian astronomer & physicist
Galileo
was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian and one of the most influential men in human history
Newton
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.
William Harvey
English dramatist & poet
shakespeare
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, & poet. sculpted 'David' and painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel
Michealangelo
italian painter, sculptor, architect, & engineer. painted 'Mona Lisa'
Leonardo da Vinci
the lending of money with an interest charge for its use
Usury
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
Indulgences
the third Monday in January observed as a legal holiday in some states of the United States
Martin Luther
God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God.
Justification by Faith
widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
95 theses
an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership
excommunication
pre-destination
john calvin
before the creation God determined the fate of the universe throughout all of time and space.
predestination
government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
theocracy
King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death.
henry VIII
defeated spanish armada
elizabeth I
to firmly establish the English monarch as the official head of the Church of England, supplanting the power of the Catholic pope in Rome.
act of supremecy
to take or make use of without authority or right
appropriate
Became a national church throughout the Birish Isles under Elizabeth 1
angelican church
defeated by queen elizabeth
spanish armada
family that continued to support the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation.
Hapsburg Family
political entity of lands in western and central Europe
holy roman empire
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
thirty years war
members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Huguenots
grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic
edict of nantes
known by the title of the King's "Chief Minister" or "First Minister".
chardinal Richelieu
the church’s response to the events of the Protestant Reformation.
catholic counter reformation
challenged church before martin luther
huss
challenged church before martin luther
wycliffe
played an important part in determining the outcome of the Counter-Reformation.
council of trent
Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called-
jesuits
disambiguation
roman catholic inquisition
invented the printing press
gutenberg