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Chapter 1/Global section Flashcards

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Feudalism

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Political, social, military, and economic structure/beliefs.

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Charlemagne

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King of the franks

Empower of the Holy Roman Empire

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Chivalry

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Group of Knights

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Magna Carta

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“Great charter”, fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties
Take away rights of the King

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Impact of the crusades

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Crusades- attempts by the catholic church to recover holy lands form the Muslims
- lead to trade and money

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Middle class

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the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like

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Vernacular

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Original language of the people that live their

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Holy Roman Empire

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Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe that began with the coronation of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in a.d. 800 (or, according to some historians, with the coronation of Otto the Great, king of Germany, in a.d. 962) and ended with the renunciation of the Roman imperial title by Francis II in 1806, and was regarded theoretically as the continuation of the Western Empire and as the temporal form of a universal dominion whose spiritual head was the pope

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Ottoman Empire

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a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century

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Five pillars of Islam

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They make up Muslim life, prayer, concern for the needy, self purification and the pilgrimage (hajj)

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Koran

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Sacred text of Islam divided into 114 chapters

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Muhammad

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Arab prophet, founder of Islam

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What was the meaning of the renaissance?

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the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world

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Humanism

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any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate

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Florence

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Capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany

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Oligarchy

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form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few

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Machiavelli

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Italian statesman, political philosopher, and author

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Johann Gutenberg

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Credited for a printer

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Utopian

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Perfect, all is right, no crime, etc.

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Thomas more

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Writer on religious subjects

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William Shakespeare

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Poet and dramatist

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Catholic Church abuses

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Worldliness- too much power over things other than religion
Nepotism- putting friends and relatives in important positions
Simony- bribing to get a job
Sale of indulgences- can escape purgatory, but it’ll cost you money

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Martin Luther

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95 theses- stuff he didn’t like about the Catholic Church
Diet of worms- meeting place for catholic priests where Luther was lured and almost arrested
Thought indulgences were corrupt
Saved by a German prince

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Lutheranism

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  • belief in the bible
  • vernacular bible
  • schools
  • simplify mass
  • rid of indulgences and confession
  • permit priests to marry
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John Calvin

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Attacked by the church because of his theory of predestination
Calvinists sects

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Predestination

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Being predestined to go to heaven

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Henry VII

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Confiscated all catholic land
Marriage issues as far as having a boy (would divorce if had no son)
Got excommunicated

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Council of Trent

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No nepotism, simony, indulgences, worldliness, cleaned up their act, declare pope infallible

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Jesuits

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member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534

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Anglican

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“Religion” made by Church of England (Henry VIII) because of marriage issues

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Hohenzollern

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Royal family of Germany, Prussia

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