5497438009 | Johann gutenberg | A German blacksmith who introduced printing to Europe;created the 1st printing press | 0 | |
5497438010 | Sect | A religious domination regarded as heretical or deviating from a generally accepted religious tradition | 1 | |
5497438011 | Clergy | The group or body of ordained persons in a religion | 2 | |
5497438012 | Predestination | The decree of God by which certain souls are foreordained into salvation | 3 | |
5497438013 | Excommunication | To be cut off from the church | 4 | |
5497438014 | Theocracy | Government run by church officials | 5 | |
5497438015 | Heresy/heretic | The maintaining of a religious opinion | 6 | |
5497438016 | Indulgence | The act of buying a persons way to salvation | 7 | |
5497438017 | Papacy | The office, dignity or jurisdiction of the pope, government in which the pope is the ruler | 8 | |
5497438018 | Monastery | Residence in which monks reside | 9 | |
5497438019 | Annulment | To make void or null, abolish, cancel, invalidate | 10 | |
5497438020 | Literacy/illiteracy | The ability to read or write/the inability to read and write | 11 | |
5497438021 | Humanism | Any system or mode in which all thought or action is based off of human interests and ideas | 12 | |
5497438022 | Vernacular | The native language of a certain place | 13 | |
5497438023 | Heliocentric | The idea that the planets in the solar system revolve around the sun | 14 | |
5497438024 | Scientific method | A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data is gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested. | 15 | |
5497438025 | Patron | A person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsements toward an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, etc. | 16 | |
5497438026 | Nicolaus Copernicus | A polish scholar who published "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres." And proposed the idea of a heliocentric universe. | 17 | |
5497438027 | Florence | A city in Italy that influenced and inspired the renaissance | 18 | |
5497438028 | Wittenberg | Where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church | 19 | |
5497438029 | Geneva | Swiss city state in which Calvinism was spread | 20 | |
5497438030 | Council of Trent | A meeting that the pope called that met off and on for 20 years. They reaffirmed the traditional catholic views. | 21 | |
5497438031 | Galileo Galilei | An Italian scholar that observed that the 4 moons of Jupiter move slowly around the planet. | 22 | |
5497438032 | Andreas vesalius | Published "On The Structure of the Human Body." He used whatever means he could to increase his knowledge of anatomy | 23 | |
5497438033 | Anton Van Leeuwenhoek | Perfected the microscope and became the 1st human to see cells and microorganisms. | 24 | |
5497438034 | Isaac newton | Formed a theory to explain why the planets moved the way they did, showed that a single force called gravity kept the planets in orbit. He partially developed calculus | 25 | |
5497438035 | Robert Boyle | Refined the alchemists view of chemicals as basic building blocks, explained matter as being composed of tiny particles that behave in knowable ways | 26 | |
5497438036 | Rene Descartes | Wrote "Discourse on Method." Concluded that doubt was the only thing he could not question, and that in order to doubt, he had to exist as a rational thinking being | 27 | |
5497438037 | William Shakespeare | English poet that wrote many plays and other pieces of literature. | 28 | |
5497438038 | Martin luther | A German monk who triggered a full scaled revolt against the church with his 95 theses | 29 |
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