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Unit VII vocab
RANDR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annul | to cancel or invalidate |
| Calvinism | Reform ideas including the ideas of predestination |
| Gravity | A force pulling one mass towards another |
| Heliocentric | Belief that the sun is at the center of the solar system |
| Heresy | Religous belief contrary to the official teachings of the church |
| Humanism | Itellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religous ones |
| Indulgence | Pardon for sins committed during one's lifetime |
| 95 Theses | List of 95 arguments against the roman catholic church, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in 1517 |
| Patron | Financial supporter of the arts |
| Perspective | Artist technique used to give a three dimensional effect |
| predestination | idea that god determined long ago who would gain salvation in heaven; you could not change this |
| Protestant reformation | period when europeans broke away from the roman catholic church and formed new christian churches |
| Recant | to give up someones belief or views |
| Renaissance | period of great creativity and change in europe from the 1300's through the 1600's; the word mean's rebirth |
| Scientific method | Period in the 1500's and 1600's in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation |
| Secular | Having to do with worldly rather than religous matters |
| John Calvin | Protestant reformer who preached predestination |
| Cervantes | Spanish autor of Don Quixote |
| Copernicus | Polish astromoner who proposed the sun centered model of the solar system |
| leanardo da vinci | Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the mona lisa |
| Galileo | Renaissance astromoner who supported the heliocentric |
| Martin Luther | German monk who began the protestant reformation with his writings in 1517 |
| Michelangelo | Renaissance sculptur engineer architect poet and painter of the sistine chapel |
| sir isaac newton | english sceientist who discovered gravity |
| William Shackspear | English poet and playwright of numerous comidies tragidies and histories |