Middle Ages
Bubonic Plague
Created the scientific method
Francis Bacon
A word that means using rational thinking and evidence to come to conclusions
Reason
Believed in freedom of speech, religious tolerance, and the importance of the separation of church and state, meaning that government and religion should not be combined
Voltaire
A person on a religious journey, typically to promote their religion
Missionary
_________ (horseback soldiers) fought for their lord and protected the ________ (piece of land)
1) Knights, 2) fief
1) Martin Luther, 2) indulgences
Belief that God created the universe but does not intervene
Deism
Believed that people were naturally selfish, and a strong central government was necessary for there to be order
Thomas Hobbes
What does heliocentric mean?
Solar system with the sun in the center
Political system in which land is passed down from lord to vassal in return for loyalty/taxes/military service
Feudalism
A word that means non-religious
Secular
True or False: All Enlightenment thinkers opposed slavery
False
One of the first feminists; advocated for women's equality, especially education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Peasants who couldn't individually be bought and sold, but had few rights and had to stay on the property
Serfs
Religious wars between Christians and Muslims over control of Jerusalem
The Crusades
Christians who chose to practice their faith on their own instead of following the Catholic Church
Protestants
Questioning ideas until they're proven
Skepticism
Believed that everyone had natural rights: the rights to life, liberty, and property
John Locke
Holy city for all three Abrahamic religions (i.e., Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Jerusalem