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Religious group that has broken away from an established church
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Sect
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A thriving trading region where the northern Renaissance began
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Flanders
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Wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and keep power
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The city that produced many Renaissance artists and scholars with the support of the Medici family
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Florence
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A government run by religious leaders
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Theocracy
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The idea that God long ago decided who would be saved and who would not
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Predestination
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Proposed a heliocentric model of the universe
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Started a printing revolution
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Johann Gutenberg
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Artist who made sketches of flying machines centuries before the first airplane
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Showed that gravity keeps planets in orbit
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Isaac Newton
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The belief that a monarch's authority comes directly from God
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Divine right
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Landowning Russian nobles under Peter the Great
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Boyars
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French Protestants whose freedoms were protected by Henry IV
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Huguenots
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English Protestants who differed with the Church of England
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Dissenters
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Soldiers for hire
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Mercenaries
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