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What is Reformation?
A period of time when people thought critically about the Catholic Church.
What is Indulgence?
Forgiveness that the church would give to people.
What is Conscience?
An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.
What is Enlightenment?
A time when Europe started questioning religion and focused more on philosophy and science.
What is Renaissance?
A time of the rebirth of learning where Europe reconnected with the culture and art of Greece and Rome.
What is ex-communication?
The taking away of a person's right of membership in a Christian church.
What is hierarchy?
Ranking of a place based on population, industry, and economy
What is philosophy?
An activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other.
John Locke says all humans are born with 3 rights. What are they?
Life, liberty, and right to own property.
What are 95 theses?
Arguments written by Martin Luther against the Catholic church.
Who wrote the bible in different languages?
Martin Luther.
When did Enlightenment period start and end?
1715-1789
What was Martin Luther's main complaint with the Catholic Church?
Martin Luther disagreed with the Church selling indulgences, which are forgivenesses.
What are Natural Rights?
Rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away.
What are human rights?
The basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death.
What language was the bible written in before the reformation?
Greek and latin.
What were the social classes in France?
The clergy was the First Estate, the nobles were the Second Estate, and the peasants were the Third Estate.
What caused the split between Catholics and Protestants?
It all started when Reformation took place Martin Luther tried to reform the Catholic Church but this caused the Great Schism.
Who invented the three branches of government?
Baron De Montesquieu.
Why was Martin Luther an Outlaw.
He was excommunicated because his beliefs were against the church.
What does the United States Constitution reflect Enlightenment or religious principles?
Enlightenment principles.
What was some effect reformation had on Europe?
- New branches of Christianity were formed.
- The Reformation was the beginning of a drastic change in Europe.
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- During the Reformation, monarchs gained power, and the Church's status was reduced.
Who were the main philosophers of the Enlightenment?
Cesare Beccaria, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Hugo Grotius, Baruch Spinoza, and Voltaire.
What was some effect Enlightenment had on Europe?
Enlightenment opened up Europe to major change and began to make people question religion and have a more secular outlook.
Was Martin Luther's goal to start a revolution or to reform the Catholic Church?
His intentions weren't to start a revolution. He just wanted to fix the problems with the Church.