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45 Cards in this Set
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a purchasable pardon from sins that a person has committed |
Indulgences |
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the religious revolution that spreads throughout Europe in the early 1500’s |
Protestant Reformation |
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wrote and posted his nine-five theses against the Catholic Church sparking the Reformation |
Martin Luther |
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an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine |
Humanism |
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groups of people breaking away from the Catholic Church that did not form an organized church |
Sects |
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leader of England that broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Church of England |
Henry VIII |
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a government ruled by religious leaders who claim God’s authority |
Theocracy |
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founded a religion called Calvinism |
John Calvin |
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followers of Calvinism |
Huguenots |
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a period of time when people began to apply mathematics and experiments to understand the world around them |
Scientific Revolution
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the Catholic Church’s effort to regain control during the Protestant Reformation |
Counter-Reformation |
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astronomer that developed the heliocentric theory and placed the sun at the center of the known solar system |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
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an Italian scientist who worked to help confirm Copernicus’s new found understanding of the universe |
Galileo Galilei |
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developed the laws of motion and the laws of gravity |
Isaac Newton |
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published a seven volume book series on human anatomy. He is known as the father of human anatomy |
Andreas Vesalius |
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father of the Scientific Revolution and is known for the discovery and implementation of the scientific method |
Rene Descartes |
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the science of creating maps |
Cartography |
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invented by the Chinese and is used to navigate using the cardinal directions |
Compass |
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taxes placed imports |
Tariffs |
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grants of money to help businesspeople start new industries and build ships |
Subsidies |
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states that a country’s government should do all it could to increase the country’s wealth |
Mercantilism |
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a country received more gold and silver from other nations than it paid to them |
Favorable balance of trade |
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sailed from Spain in search of India and accidently discovered the New World |
Christopher Columbus |
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products, plants, animals, and even diseases traveling between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
Columbian Exchange |
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a treaty between Spain and Portugal that drew a line dividing the New World |
Treaty of Tordesillas |
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Italian navigator that was the first person to realise the new lands were not part of Asia and as a result named the New World |
Amerigo Vespucci |
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the route for the Atlantic slave trade |
Triangular trade |
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the second stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which the slaves were sold for gold |
Middle Passage |
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Spanish explorer that invaded Mexico. He captured and destroyed the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlan |
Hernan Cortes |
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lead men into South America from Panama to Peru and conquered the capital of the Inca Empire, Cusco. |
Francisco Pizarro |
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officials who represented the monarchy in the newly formed colonies |
Viceroys |
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led a revolt against the Spanish in the New World |
William of Orange |
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military technique involving a hit and run style of combat |
Guerrilla warfare |
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Mona Lisa, The Last Supper,and Vitruvian Man |
Leonardo da Vinci |
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The David, Sistine Chapel, and Pieta |
Michelangelo |
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invented the printing press |
Johannes Gutenberg |
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Hamlet, Macbeth,and Romeo and Juliet |
William Shakespeare |
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wrote the Utopia |
Thomas Moore |
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discovered Saturn's rings |
Galileo Galilei |
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wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica |
Andreas Vesalius |
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Sailed down the Gold Coast of Africa |
Prince Henry |
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sailed around the Cape of Good Hope |
Bartolomeu Dias |
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sailed all the way to India |
Vasco da Gama |
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attempted to sail around the world |
Ferdinand Magellan |
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sailed into what is now Florida |
Ponce de Leon |
