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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