AP World History Chapter 16 Vocab

a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

The Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in which it tried to reform itself.

"dancing sickness" a religious revival movement in central Peru in the 1560's whose members preached the imminent destruction of Christianity and of the Europeans in favor of a renewed Andean golden age.

missionaries from Europe that tried to convert the Chinese to Roman Catholicism and took advantage of China's interest in technology to convert them

Major Islamic movement led by the Muslim theologian Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792) that advocated an austere lifestyle and strict adherence to the sharia or Islamic law

Prominent Chinese philosopher (1472-1529) who argued that it was possible to achieve a virtuous life by introspection without the extensive education of traditional Confuciansim

A notion of "researched based evidence" that occurred in China as a foil to Neo-Confucian orthodoxy

One of India's most beloved bhakti poets (1498-1547), She helped break down the barriers of caste and tradition.

the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam

Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)

English mathematician and physicist

18th century philosophical movement that proposed individual self-interest

French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)

The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was a French philosopher and political scientist who argued that human affairs were moving into an era of near infinite improvability, with slavery, racism, tyranny, and other human trials swept away by the triumph of reason