Question | Answer |
Telescope | Galileo used the discoveries in his scientific discoveries. |
Americas | Nutrition in Europe improved after 1600 because of new food crops from the _____. |
anatomist | person who studies anatomy by such methods as dissecting dead bodies. |
Bacon | The scientist who developed the scientific method was Francis ____ . |
Catholics | Until 1517 all European Christians had been Roman _______. |
Copernicus | The astronomer who first challenged the medieval view of the heavens was ______ . |
courtier | attendant at monarchs court. |
empire | group of states or territories controlled by one country. |
Empires | By 1700 European countries had developed overseas _______ . |
humanism | The new philosophy of the Renaissance was called _______ . |
humanist | system or mode of thought in which human interests dominate. |
Kings | During the 16th and 17th centuries _______reduced the power of the nobility- began to use professional armies and began to employ professional civil servants. |
life | Renaissance writers began to concentrate on everyday ____? |
tenant | person who pays rent to a landlord for the use of land. |
Vernacular | the everyday language of people. |
worse | After 1517 religious disputes in Europe made political disputes _________ |
living | After 1500 conditions for many Europeans improved because trade increased- serfs became landowners and towns grew in size and economic power. |
Middle Ages | Time period in European history from about 500 A.D. to about 1500 A.D.(two words) |
philosophy | pursuit of the principles underlying all knowledge;pursuit of wisdom. |
political | As a result of the Reformation kings saw themselves as both ____ and religious leaders. |
printing | The ________ press helped to spread new ideas in the Renaissance. |
protestant | Christian group that separated from the Roman Catholic Church. |
Reformation | Religious movement in Europe in the in the 16th century to reform the Catholic Church. |
Reformation | The period in which challenges to the Catholic Church took place was called the ___. |
Renaissance | a time of great revival or rebirth. |
Renaissance | Historians of which period were the first to distinguish different eras in history? |
serf | person attached to lords land and required to give services to him. |
technologies | Scientific developments were dependent on new _____ . |