Key Terms

Question 1

What is Humanism?

Answer 1

Secular conception of life. Interest in the study of classical texts of Greece and Rome. Liberal arts education

Question 2

What is Christian Humanism?

Answer 2

Northern Europe. Gave humanism a Christian content. Committed to religious piety and institutional reform

Question 3

New Monarchs

Answer 3

Those who created professional armies and a centralized administrative bureaucracy. (Charles VII, Louis XI, Henry VII, Ferdinand and Isabella)

Question 4

Taille

Answer 4

Direct tax on French peasantry. Most important sources of income for French monarch until French Revolution

Question 5

Reconquista

Answer 5

Christian ‘reconquest’ of Spain from Muslims.

Question 6

Anabaptist

Answer 6

Protestants who insisted that only adult baptism conformed to Scripture. Protestant and Catholic leaders condemned Anabaptist for advocating the complete separation of church and state