World History - Unit 2 Test 1

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of a new branch of Christianity.

A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin

Former German monk that led the Protestant Reformation, wrote the 95 theses and challenged the Catholic Church.

Religious movements that break away from orthodoxy, different branches.

The belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power

The reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected)

Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by Protestant reformers

A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.

Point of View, used in art.

"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome