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chapter 14 i.d.'s
europe transformed/ reformation
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9th Grade
11/25/2013

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Absolutism 

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  • a form of government where the sovereign power or ultimate authority rested in the hands of a monarch who claimed to rule by a divine right and therefore resonsible only to god
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Baroque

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  • A style that dominated painting, sculpture, archetecture, and music from about 1580-1730
  • generally charcterized by elaborate ornanmentation and dramatic events
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Christian Humanism

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  • beleived in the abiltiy of human beings to reason and improve themselves through analysis of classical and especially Christianity antiquity, Erasmus was the most famous proponent.
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