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| alliances | agreements between countries, states, or people |
| gravity | force that holds objects to the Earth and keeps planets circling the sun |
| heresy | crime of denying the beliefs of the Church |
| mercenaries | soldiers who fight for pay, not out of loyalty to a cause |
| patrons | wealthy people who pay artists and writers to produce their work |
| perspective | differences in the way things look when they are close to a person and when they are far away |
| Reformation | religious movement that began in 16th century Europe as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the founding of Protestantism |
| Copernicus | wrote a book explaining the heliocentric theory |
| Galileo | improved the telescope |
| Isaac Newton | proved that people and objects are held to the Earth by a force |
| Henry VIII | started a new Protestant Church in England to seize the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Joan of Arc | inspired by voices to help the French defeat the English in the Hundred Years' War |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented a printing press with movable type |
| Leonardo da Vinci | artist, scientist, and inventor, the perfect "Renaissance man" |
| Michelangelo | painter, sculptor, and architect, famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Shakespeare | England's most famous playwright |
