Fast & Curious Vocabulary Unit 8 (Entering the Modern Age)

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What movement from the 14th to 17th century (1300s) focused on art and learning based on ideas from classical Greece and Rome?

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Renaissance

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Which term refers to the belief in the importance of the individual along with the value of individual achievement and dignity?

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Individualism

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What is the term for when people pay to get church jobs?

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Simony

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What is the term for the idea that the Earth goes around the sun?

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Heliocentric

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What is mercantilism?

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A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

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A philosophy that tries to balance religious faith with an emphasis on individual dignity and an interest in nature and human society.

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Humanism

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Protestant

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Christians who broke away or separated from the Roman Catholic Church

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Colony

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a large territory under the control of another control

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Revolution

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The violent overthrow of a government, the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical path around another object, a dramatic and wide-reach change in beliefs or in the way things are done.

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Indulgences

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a way for individuals to receive full or partial remission (forgiveness) of punishment for sins.