Renaissance Chapter 14
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Renaissance |  a revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome, began in 1300 |
| Florence Rome Venice Milan Naples | important cities |
| humanists | scholars that specialize in humanities |
| Reformation | a religious revolution that split the church in western Europe and created several new churches. |
| 95 theses | statements about indulgences |
| indulgences | pardons from punishment for sin |
| sects | Religious societies of a few people, usually with a preacher as their leader. |
| predestination | Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life. |
| counter-reformation | catholic church's attempt to stop the protestant movement and to Strengthen the Catholic Church |
| almanacs | books that predict the weather and the prospects for growing crops |
| standard of living | The measure of the quality of life of people or a country. |
| inflation | a rise in prices for goods |
| scientific revolution | the era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made, and accepted beliefs were questioned |
| scientific method | a method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses |
| theocracy | a government ruled by a clergy claiming God's authority |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | A dimplomat and historian of Florence who believed that power counts more than ideals. He wrote a famous essay called The Prince. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | He applied knowledge of mathematics and science to his paintings. He created the Mona Lisa. |
| Michelangelo | He sculpted biblical figures and painted frescoes in the ceiling og the Sistine Chapel. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | First European to to use movable type to print books. |
| William Shakespeare | Wrote plays that were masterpieces of poetic drama and created such characters as Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet. |
| 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. Led the Reformation. |
| John Calvin | religious reformer who believed in predestination and a strict sense of morality for society |
| Ignatius de Loyola | establishes Jesuits- take vow of poverty and attempt to keep people dedicated Catholics |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | theorized the sun is in the center of the universe, but didn't have the instruments or mathematical formulas to prove it. |
| Galileo Galilei | Helped disprove the geocentric theory |
| Franceso Petrarch | Scholor and teacher, one of the first humanists. Wrote poetry, and his sonnets to an imaginary ideal woman are considered of the greatest love poems in literature. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Greatest humanist of northern Europe. Wrote Praise of Folly; believed that everybody should study the Bible |
| Thomas More | Wrote Utopia, an imaginary ideal society |
| Johannes Kepler | Used mathematics to prove the heliocentric theory |
| Rene Descartes | Wrote Discourse on Method, it argued that everything should be doubted until it is proven. |
| Isaac Newton | Combined the contributions of several scientists to explain the laws of force and motion that control the planets. |
| broadsides | Single printed sheets of paper |
| printing | helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance |
| perspective | technique of painting that creates an illusion of depth on a flat canvas |
| theocracy | Government ruled by a clergy claiming God's authority |
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