Renaissance & Reformation Vocab

Intellectual movement that focused on education and the classics

• Reformation

• Humanism

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

 a ‘rebirth’ of the Roman and Greek eras that pertain their style of politics, social life, economic ideas, and cultural styles

• Secularism

• Ghettos

• Reniassance

• Social Contract

movement in the 1500’s that split the church and created a number of new churches.  

• Enlightenment

• Heliocentric Theory

• Jesuits

• Reformation

a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church

• Protestant

• Catholic

• Agnostic

• Ahtiest

the belief that religion should not be part of the affairs of the state or part of public education

• Catholicism

• Secularism

• Protestant

• Reformation

a step by step process that requires careful observation, skepticism, and observations

• Scientific Method

• Heliocentric Theory

• Printing Press

• Logic

 the theory that stated the sun is the center of the earth; rather than the old understanding of how the Earth is at the center

• Isaac Newton's Theory

• Scientific Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Jesuit

full comprehension of the situation during the 17th and 18th centuries; where people began to understand how tyrannical/corrupt monarchies and churches were

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

• Scientific Revolution

• Awakening

 the idea that citizens had to give up some personal rights to the government to gain protection

• Appeasement

• Social Rights

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

the idea where enlightenment thinkers believed that in order to protect their livelihoods they deserved life, liberty and property

• Reformation Rights

• Natural Rights

• Social liberties

• Declaration of Independence