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Renaissance and Reformation
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History
10th Grade
02/25/2009

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Geneva
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Where Calvinism was 1st permanently followed
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Petrarch
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Father of Humanism, believed people should "go back to the basics" or return to Greek/Roman ideals.

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Council of Trent
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A gathering of bishops and archbishops to reform the catholic church.

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Huguenot
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Name for Calvinists in France.

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Jesuits
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 Group of Christians created to revive Catholicism after the Reformation; searched for converts and built schools

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Classics
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Works of literature from the Greek/Roman era.

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John Knox
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Started the Reformation in Scotland with Calvinism.
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Anabaptists

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Religious group during the Reformation, believed followers should be rebaptized to give the choice of whether or not to be Christian as an adult.
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Renaissance
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Meaning “rebirth”. An era after the crusades of new ideas and priorities; the birth of secularism, individualism, and humanism.
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Renaissance Man
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A person who is of master knowledge in al the known subjects: science, drawing, painting, sculpting, mathematics, English.
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Classical Cultures

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Cultures of ancient Rome and Greece
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