click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 14 Vocab
Honors World History
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Patron | financial supporter of arts |
Humanism | intellectual movement on worldly subjects |
Humanities | subject taught to Greeks and Romans |
Perspective | painting appears 3D by sizing objects |
Engraving | etching a design on metal plate with acid |
Vernacular | everyday language |
Utopian | ideal society |
Indulgence | lessening time in purgatory |
Recant | give up view |
Predestination | god determined long ago who gets saved |
Theocracy | government rule by church leaders |
Annul | cancel |
Canonize | recognize as saint |
Compromise | agreement |
Scapegoat | someone to blame |
Ghetto | separate part of a city |
Heliocentric | sun is center |
Hypothesis | possible explanation ('beneath') |
Scientific method | step-by-step process of discovery |
Gravity | force that keeps planets in orbit around sun |