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Heliocentric | Sun centered model of the universe |
Catholic Church | The leading and dominant of all Christian faiths in early Renaissance Europe |
Printing Press | The invention that helped spread ideas and technology during the Renaissance and beyond. |
Perspective | pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws. |
Lutheranism | Religion that tought salvation could be gained through faith alone, the bible was the sole source of religious truth, and that the Catholic Churches' priests and hierarchy did not have special powers |
Predestination | Calvin's theory that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation |
Scientific Method | the use of mathematical calculations to convert observations into fact |
Inquisition | church court set up to root out heresy |
Patron of the Arts | someone who enjoys art |
Anglican Church | The Church of England started by King Henry the VIII |
95 Theses | List of arguments against indulgences |
Theocracy | government where laws are created in accordance with a religion |
Monarchy | government where a king or queen exercise central power |
Italian Renassaince | the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. |
Da Vinci | Most famous artist of the Renassaince era |
Black Death | The plague that ravaged Europe |
Utopia | an ideal place or state |
Northern Renassaince | The age of change that began 100 years after the Italian Rennassaince in France, Belgium, and the Netherlans |
Anabaptist | Believed only adults, not children, should be baptised |
Protestant | Christian church that "protested" papal authority |
Reformation | To reform |
Humanism | Intellectual Movement at the heart of the Italian renassaince that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues |
Indulgences | pardon for sins according to the Roman Catholic Church |