Chapter 1: Renaissance
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Renaissance change in: art, society and thought | art: perspective...farther away things smaller and drew from live models society: new emphasis on individual achievement thought: interest grew in humanism, reawakened interest in classical greece/rome |
| Protestant Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
| Martin Luther | a German monk and professor who created the 95 thesuses a document listing things wrong with the church |
| Peace of Augsburg 1555 | allowed each prince to decide wether they wanted to be catholic or lutheran in their land |
| Council of Trent | called to establish direction reform should take, council reinstated traditional Catholic views that Protestants had challenged |
| John Calvin | a reformer who would extremely affect the direction of the Protestant Reformation and created theocracy and predestination |
| theocracy | a government run by church leaders |
| predestination | the idea that God predetermined who would gain salvation |
| Henry VII and the Anglican Church | wanted to annul his marriage but the Pope would not let him so he broke away from Catholic Church and made the Anglican Church or church of England |
| Scientific Revolution | an era where scientific thought changed about the universe and math and eventually led to the change in technology |
| Heliocentric theory | invented by Nicholaus Copernicus it said that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Johannes Kepler | a German astronomer and mathematician that used pervious data to calculate the planets orbit around the sun that supported copernicus' idea and concluded that planets orbit in an oval called an ELLIPSE |
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