A-Z: General definitions
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- a Calvary
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- Aaron's Rod
- Abaddon
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- Abolitionist
- Abomination of desolation
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln
- Absalom
- Absolution
- Absolve
- Abstinence
- Abstruse
- Absurdist
- Abyss
- Academy
- Accent
- Achan
- Acheron
- Achilles
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- Acoustic
- Acoustics
- Act
- Act of Union
- Actaeon
- Active Life
- Active verb
- Active Voice
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- Adam
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- Adjectives - comparatives and superlatives
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- Adolf Hitler
- Adonian
- Adonis
- Adultery
- Advent
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- Aegeus
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A-Z: General definitions: Early Modern
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The period from the late Middle Ages until around 1800. It was an age of science, technology and globalisation, which included the colonising of America. Within this period was the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.
The period of European history broadly between 1000AD-1500AD.
Renaissance is literally 're-birth'. The term describes the movement, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries originating from Italy, where new areas of art, poetry, scholarship and architecture emerged.
Term given to the movements of church reform which in the sixteenth century resulted in new Protestant churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, also known as the Age of Reason. It sought to promote knowledge and reform society by focussing on what could be understood through reason and logic.
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