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Peace of Augsburg
Occurs in 1555 between Charles V and Lutheran princes. - Decides that princes will choose religion, - Does not translate to religious tolerance - Marks the permanent division of Christiandom
The Reconquest
The Spanish conquering the Muslims, Moors through very violent battles in order to impose Catholicism on them - Finished in 1492
Justification by Faith
The basis of all of Luther's principles stating that salvation comes by faith in God alone
Louis XIV
- The most famous of all Bourbon kings - Responsible for bringing together absolutism themes by building Versailles, his war mongrel composure and exercising the right to force religion
Henry VIII
English King that needed a son to carry on the throne but failed to conceive one with Catherine of Aragon - Wants to get an annulment but pope refuses in which Henry responded by starting the Church of England making the king also head of church
Enclosure
First practiced in England following open field farming, farmers decided to consolidate their holdings and close it off literally. - Gave them opportunity to experiment - Land is now bought and sold - Bring the need for self reliance
Charles V (I)
- The king of Spain using his rule to strengthen the government in all of his territories - Did nothing to unify his kingdom making his territories very independent - Fought numerous religious wars draining the treasury and causing him to step down in 1556 and divides holdings into 2
Iconoclasm
The destruction of images out of religious zeal
Heliocentrism
Copernicus strengthened theory that the planets and earth revolve around a stationary sun
Edict of Worms
Proclaimed by Charles in response to Luther's refusal to renounce his works - It made Luther an outlaw and banned all of his works
Ignatius of Loyola
- Founded the society of the Jesuits - Completely dedicated and loyal to the Catholic Church - Made them the missionaries of the world
The Great Schism
-Occurred between 1378-1418 - There were 2 popes (one in Rome and the other in Avignon) - Legitimacy was devistated
The Military Revolution
- Begin to invent infantry - Mobile artillery - Establishment of permanent standing army - Chivalry is no more
Predestination
- Eternal fate was already decided for you by God even before birth - This was the key to Calvinism - Consumed individuals to try to find evidence that they were chosen
Deism
The scientific and mathematical view of God
Versailles
-Built by Louis XIV and was the most magnificent palace ever - It was a monument to his power and became model for every absolutist in Europe
Principia Mathematica
- Written by Isaac Newton in 1687 - Mathematical principles of natural philosophy - Foundation of the modern world view
Council of Trent
- The institutional response to the church - They pursued internal reform of the church to make it more strict - Do their office jobs and own a single one
Empericism
- Founded by Francis Bacon from England - A philosophy of science rejecting speculation using the senses to observe the world and analyzing those observations - Basis for scientific method
Proto-industrialization
- Starts in the late 1500s - Merchants began to organize industry in the countryside, first large manufacturing industry forms
Encyclopedia
- Created by Denis Diderot to make the world a more educated place in 1751
Philosophes
-The thinkers and writers of the period passionate to bring light and progress to the world. - Not scholars but rather popularizers
Civil society
- The middle class with people with some economic independence - Had leisure time which led to the pursuit of education

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