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Luther took a stand against the choices of the church to sell indulgences. -
The peasants of Germany stormed the castles and monastery for more freedom. -
France and Spain fought for control of Italy. -
The Act of Supremacy was what accepted Henry as the head of the church rather than the Pope. -
John Clavin wrote a book about God, salvation, and human nature. It was a summary of Protestant theology. -
The Jesuit Order founded schools and converted non-Christians to Catholicism.
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A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders to rule of doctrines. -
A technique to fight Protestantism and have religious uniformity using harsh methods. -
-The heliocentric theory-sun centered view of the universe
-Formulated the quantity theory of money (money supply has a direct proportional relationship with the price level) -
I agreement was made that the religion of each German state would be made by it's own ruler. -
Queen Elizabeth restored Protestantism and created the Anglican Church. She was a strong-willed and unpredictable lady. -
John Knox made Scotland's official religion Calvinism. -
12,000 Huguenots were killed, this fighting went on for years and ended when the leader, Henry of Navarre became Catholic. -
He udged scientists to experiment. He believed in empiricism--the experimental method.
He thought people should stop relying on Aristotle's ideas and stop reasoning from abstract theories. -
The Edict of Nantes created by Henry of Navarre to grant religious freedom to Protestants. -
-observation through telescope of the solar system
-confirmed the idea that the sun is the center of the planets -
He developed analytical geometry.
He preferred mathematics and logic to experimentation. -
He believed that the best government was an absolute monarchy.
He also believed that government should impose order and demand obedience. -
Montesquieu believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politically balanced country in his day.
He called division of power among different branches the separation of power and he created the idea of checks and balances. -
He fought for telerance, reason, religious freedom, and freedom of speech.
He was sent to prison twice and expelled from England for 2 years. -
-he won recognition as a writer of essays
-Guaranteed in the U.S Bill of Rights and French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen -
He favored the idea of self-government.
He criticized an absolute monarchy.