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Gr 7 History Ch 12
Grade 7 History Ch 12 Review - People
Term | Definition |
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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 |