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W. Hist - Topic 10
W. History - Topic 10 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| humanism | an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics |
| humanist | someone who studies subjects such as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history that were taught in ancient Greece and Rome |
| patron | a person who provides financial support for the arts |
| perspective | artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three-dimensional effect |
| engraving | art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints |
| vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| utopian | idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society |
| indulgence | in the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime |
| diet | assembly or legislature |
| predestination | Calvinist belief that God long ago determined who would gain salvation |
| theocracy | government run by religious leaders |
| sect | a subgroup of a major religious group |
| canonize | recognize a person as a saint |
| compromise | an agreement in which each side makes concessions; an acceptable middle ground |
| ghetto | separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live |
| heliocentric | based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe |
| hypothesis | an unproved theory accepted for the purposes of explaining certain facts or to provide a basis for further investigation. |
| scientific method | careful, step-by-step process used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis |
| gravity | force that pulls objects in Earth’s sphere to the center of Earth |
| calculus | a branch of mathematics in which calculations are made using special symbolic notations, developed by Isaac Newton |
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