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chapter 1-4, world history

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person who provides financial support for the arts   patron  
intellectual movement at the heart of the renaissance that focused on wordly views rather than religious issues   humanism  
study of subjects taught in the ancient Greece and Rome, such as grammar, rhetoric poetry, and history   humanities  
artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect   perspective  
art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints   engraving  
everyday language of ordinary people   vernacular  
ideal society   utopia  
in the roman catholic church, pardon for sins committed during a persons lifetime   indulgence  
give up ones views or beliefs   recant  
idea that god long ago determined who will gain salvation   predestination  
government run by religious leaders   theocracy  
cancel or invalidate   annul  
recognize one as a saint   canonize  
acceptable middle ground   compromise  
person, group, or thing forced to take the blame for the crimes or mistakes of others   scapegoat  
seperate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live   ghetto  
based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe   heliocentric  
possible explanation   hypothesis  
painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis   scientific method  
force that tends to pull on mass of object toward another   gravity  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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