11th: Unit 1 Vocab

A government ruled by religious leaders who claim God’s authority

• Theocracy

• Renaissance

• Indulgences

• Annulled

Declared invalid based on church laws

• Indulgences

• Annulled

• Secular

• Jesuits

 The Catholic Church’s series of reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism

• Indulgences

• Humanism

• Printing Press

• Counter-Reformation

A meeting of church leaders in the 1500s whose purpose was to clearly define Catholic doctrines for the Catholic Reformation

• Council of Tren

• Predestination

• Renaissance

• Predestination

 A intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on the study of worldly subjects, such as poetry and philosophy, and on human potential and achievements

• Annulled

• Humanism

• Indulgences

• Renaissance

Pardons issued by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church that could reduce a soul’s time in purgatory; from the 1100s to the 1500s, indulgences could be purchased, which led to corruptions

• Jesuits

• Counter-Reformation

• Indulgences

• Predestination

Members of a Catholic religious order, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534

• Printing Press

• Council of Trent

• Indulgences

• Jesuits

The belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation

• Predestination

• Indulgences

• Protestant Reformation

• Renaissance

A machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates

• Printing Press

• Humanism

• Theocracy

• Secular

A religious movement in the 1500s that split the Christian Church in western Europe and led to the establishment of a number of new churches

• Humanism

• Reformation

• Protestant Reformation

• Renaissance