Renaissance & Reformation Vocab

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Intellectual movement focused on education and classics

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Humanism

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Rebirth of Roman and Greek styles in politics, social life, economics, and culture.

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Reniassance

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Movement in the 1500s that split the church and created new churches.

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Reformation

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Member of Western Christian churches separate from Roman Catholicism.

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Protestant

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Belief that religion shouldn't influence state or public education.

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Secularism

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Step-by-step process requiring observation and skepticism

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Scientific Method

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Theory stating the sun is the center, not the Earth.

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Heliocentric Theory

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Understanding tyranny and corruption in 17th-18th centuries

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Enlightenment

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Citizens give up some rights to gain government protection.

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Social Contract

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Enlightenment thinkers believed in life, liberty, and property as essential rights.

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Natural Rights