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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 |