wrld history test
Sir Thomas More
Wrote Utopia
Michelangelo
(1475-1564) An Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect. Famous works include the mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the sculpture of the biblical character David.
Teresa of Avila
(1515-1582) Spanish Carmelite nun and one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church; she reformed the Carmelite order. Her fervor for the Catholic Church proved inspiring for many people during the Reformation period.
Theocracy
A government controlled by religious leaders
Scientific Method
A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
Heliocentric
Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
Predestination
Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life.
Isaac Newton
Defined the laws of motion and gravity. Tried to explain motion of the universe.
Copernicus
Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center, and not earth.
Ghetto
During the middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
King Henry VIII
Founder of the church in England and ruled England from 1509-1547. He broke the Catholic church because he couldn't get a divorce
Albrecht Durer
German Leonardo made paintings & engravings
Johann Gutenberg
Invented the printing press
Galileo
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
Indulgences
Selling of forgiveness by the Catholic Church. It was common practice when the church needed to raise money. The practice led to the Reformation.
Martin Luther
a German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices.
Patron
a person who provides financial support for the arts
Bacon and Descartes
developed the scientific method
Leonardo da Vinci
made sketches of nature & models in his studio painted the mona lisa studied real life corpses
canonize
recognize a person as a saint
Cosimo de Medici
supported education and the arts, made many business connections in Europe
Queen Elizabeth I
supported the arts, increased the treasury, supported the exploration of the New World, built up the military, and established the Church of England as the main religion in England
John Calvin
thought of predestination similar ideas to martin luther
perspective
three dimensions recognized on a flat surface
compromise
to settle differences
Humanism
worldly subjects
William Shakespeare
wrote 37 plays (comedies & tragedies) between 1590-1613
Niccolo Machiavelli
wrote The Prince