WORLD HISTORY AP Flashcards

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