Unit 5 Vocab Flashcard

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Renaissance: a cultural rebirth

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Greek and Roman culture

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Humanists valued individual achievement over class or family.

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True

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What is humanism?

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Celebrating the individual

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Relating to earthly life rather than religion or spiritual matters:

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secular

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German printer who created the printing press and movable type.

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Johannes Guttenberg

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Who wrote The Prince?

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Forgiveness of sin by the Catholic Church was a(n)

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indulgence

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Splitting of the Catholic Church starting in 1517 due to Martin Luther's protests against major issues within it.

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Reformation

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Official act of expelling someone from the Christian church, preventing entry to Heaven during the Reformation.

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Excommunication

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Most famous literary figure of the Renaissance from England.

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Shakespeare