Renaissance Vocabulary

A movement following the middle ages centered on classical learning of Greece and Rome

• Reformation

• Counter Reformation

• Predestination

• Renaissance

People who specialize in humanities like grammar, rhetoric, and poetry

• Sects

• Humanists

• Priests

• Kings

An art technique where the background images are smaller than the foreground images

• Perspective

• Theocracy

• Broadsides

• Inflation

A religious revolution that split the christian church in western Europe, founding new churches

• Reformation

• Counter Reformation

• Geocentric Theory

• Standard of Living

Pardons from punishment for sin

• Sects

• 95 Theses

• Indulgences

• Broadsides

Statements that described Martin Luther's issues with the Catholic church

• Sects

• 95 Theses

• Almanac

• Inflation

Religious societies of a few people, usually with a preacher as the leader

• Humanists

• Theocracy

• Christanity

• Sects

Belief that at the beginning of time, god decided who was saved

• Theocracy

• Perspective

• Renaissance

• Predestination

Government ruled by the clergy claiming god's authority

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Heliocentric Theory

• Oligarchy

Reform movement in the catholic church begging in 1530's fostering a spiritual outlook

• Counter Reformation

• Reformation

• Predestination

• Perspective