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Gr 7 History Ch 12
Grade 7 History Ch 12 Review - People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benedict | the monk who founded a monastery in Italy and set a standard of rules or orders for other monks to follow |
| Jerome | the church leader who translated the Vulgate |
| John Wycliffe | the Oxford University teacher who challenged some of the central opinions of the Roman church and had the entire Bible translated ino English for the first time |
| John Huss | the teacher whom the Council of Constance burned at the stake for his defense of the Bible as the true authority for Christians |
| Augustine | the philosopher who wrote The Confessions and Thy City of God |
| Aristotle | "The Philosopher" |
| William of Ockham | the English philosopher who used logic to discredit the doctrine of the pope's absolute supremacy |
| Thomas Aquinas | the philosopher who combined the philosophy of Aristotle with Romanism so successfully that the church forbade anyone to disagree with him |
| Dante | the author of Divine Comedy |
| Chaucer | the author of The Canterbury Tales |
| Henry the Fowler | the powerful duke who began the Saxon line of kings in Germany |
| Otto the Great | crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by the pope at the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Pope Bicholas II | the pope who declared that popes would be chosen only by cardinals |
| Giovanni de Medici | a wealthy businessman whose family excelled in business and dominated the political scene in Florence |
| Leonardo da Vinci | a master painter, sculptor, inventor, and engineer who painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper |
| Raphael | a famous painter who painted Sistine Madonna and the School of Athens |
| Michelangelo | possibly the greatest artist of the Renaissance who was hired to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Machiavelli | writer of The Prince, the only book of lasting importance produced by the Italian Renaissance |