chp16
Subject:
World History [1]
Papacy – central government of Latin Christianity was simultaneously gaining stature and suffering from corruption
Indulgence – forgiveness of the punishment due from past sins.
Martin Luther young proffesor of sacred sculpture
Luther rejected popes’s authority and began the movement known as the protestant reformation
John Calvin highly influencal protestant leader
Widespread witch hunts that protestants and catholics undertook continuted to generate animosity in modern Europe
People believed that natural events could have supernatural causes
Fear of witches swept across Northern Europe
Aristole greatest authority in physics and math
Galielo made telescope
At the top of the social pyramid were a small number of noble familys, at the base were rural peasants