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ch. 11 - 13

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Cosimo de' Medici   Italian banker and leader of Florence   Niccolo Machiavelli   Italian writer and politician wrote "The Prince"  
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renaissance   the period of rebirth   perspective   A way to show depth in a flat surface  
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humanism   the study of history, public speaking, and art   Michelangelo   Italian renaissance artist he designed buildings, wrote poetry, and created sculptures  
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Dante Alighieri   Italian renaissance poet he wrote the "divine comedy"   Leonardo de Vinci   genius of the renaissance. He was a painter, sculptor, invento, engineer, town planner, and map maker  
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Renaissance   the period of rebirth   Petrarch   Early renaissance scholar  
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Albrecht Durer   German renaissance artist he is famous for his prints and woodcuts   Desiderius Erasmus   Dutch priest he published "In praise of Folly"  
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Miguel de Cervantes   Spanish writer he wrote "Don Quixote"   William Shakespeare   English Renaissance writer and playwright  
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Reformation   a reform movement against the Roman Catholic church that began in 1517   indulgence   A document given by the pope that excuses the person from punishment  
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purgatory   In catholic teaching a place where souls went before heaven   Martin Luther   German priest credited with starting the reformation  
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protestants   A christian who protested against the catholic church   John Calvin   Christian reformer he taught about predestination  
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King Henry VIII   King of England he split with the catholic church and declared himself head of the Church of England   Catholic Reformation   The effort of the late 1500s and 1600s to reform the catholic church  
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Ignatius of Loyola   Spanish noble and saint he founded the society of Jesus   Jesuits   members of a catholic religious order created to serve the pope of the church  
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Francis Xavier   Jesuit and priest he introduced Catholicism to parts of India and Japan   Huguenots   A french protestant  
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Edict of Nantes   A decree issued in 1598 by king Henry IV   Thirty years war   A series of wars from 1618 to 1648  
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congregation   an assembly of people who belong to the church   Federalism   The sharing of power between local governments and a central government  
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method   a way of doing something   agreement   like a truce  
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classical   referring to the cultures of ancient Greece or Rome   effect   to change or influence  
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scientific revolution   a series of events that led to the birth of modern science   science   a particular way of gaining knowledge  
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theories   an explanation a scientist develops   ptolemy    
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rationalists   someone who looks at the world in a reasonable and logical way   alchemy   a forerunner of chemistry  
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Nicolaus Copernicus   polish astronomer "On the Revolution of the celestial spheres"   Tycho Brahe   Danish astronomer of the scientific revolution  
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Johannes Kepler   German astronomer he proved that planets orbit the sun   Galileo Galilei   First scientist to use experiments to test theories.  
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Sir Isaac Newton   English scientist he studied and simplified the work of earlier scientists   Barometer   A scientific instrument that measures air pressure  
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Francis Bacon   English philosopher he argued that science could be pursued in a systematic logical fashion   Rene Descartes   French philosopher he believed that northing should be accepted as true  
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scientific method   a step by step method   hypothesis   a solution scientist proposes to solve a problem  
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logical   reasoned well thought out   procedure   a series of steps to accomplish a goal  
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principles   basic beliefs, rules      
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Marco Polo   traveler   Johann Gutenberg   German painter he developed a printing press  
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interest   a fee that borrowers pay for the use of someone elses money   Christian humanism   the combination of Christian and humanist ideas  
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