| A | B |
|---|
| Council of Trent | a group set up in 1545 to reaffirm Catholic views and end church abuses |
| Rene Descartes | he empahsized human reasoning as the best road to understanding |
| Johann Gutenburg | used the first printing press to print the first complete edition of the Bible |
| heliocentric | sun-centered model of the universe |
| Huguenot | a French Calvinist |
| Inquisition | a church court set up in the Middle Ages |
| Martin Luther | German monk, protested the Catholic Church, wrote 95 Theses |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | wrote "The Prince" to offer a guide to rulers on how to gain and maintain power |
| Lorenzo de Medici | politician and supporter of the arts |
| William Shakespeare | English poet and playwright |
| annul | to cancel a marriage |
| Tycho Brahe | Danish astronomer who provided evidence to support Copernicus's theory |
| ghetto | separate quarter of the city where Jews were forced to live |
| humanism | focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues |
| patron | financial supporter of the arts |
| Peace of Augsburg | signed in 1555, allowed each prince to decide which religion would be followed in his lands |
| perspective | making distant objects appear smaller than close ones, so art appears three dimensional |
| predestination | idea that God determines who would gain salvation |
| theocracy | government run by church leaders |
