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37 Cards in this Set
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Protestant Reformation |
Churches forced to change and adapt to New ideas |
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Recant |
To take back what you have said |
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Annul |
To end a marriage |
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Scapegoat |
Person made to bear blame for others |
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Lay Investiture |
When royalty could appoint church people when they aren't even part of the church |
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Ghetto |
The Jewish quarter of the city in Venice |
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Scientific Method |
A step by step process of discovery based on observation and experimentation |
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Catholic Reformation |
Trying to end the corruption in the Catholic church and bring back moral authority |
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Predestination |
The belief that god has already determined who will gain salvation |
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Canonize |
Recognized as a saint |
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Papal infallibility |
The idea that the people in charge can do no wrong |
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Inquisition |
A time of intensive questioning |
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Heliocentric |
Sun centered |
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Hypothesis |
Possible explanation |
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Indulgence |
What churches sold to get money |
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Theocracy |
Government run by church leaders |
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Huguenot |
French protestant |
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Simony |
The selling of indulgences |
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Usury |
Lending money with unreasonably interest |
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Geocentric |
Earth as the center of the solar system |
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Martin Luther |
German monk who disagreed with immorality of churches Wrote 95 theses |
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John Calvin |
Wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion", preached predestination |
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Henry VIII |
Married 6 women, broke England from the Catholic church |
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Andreas Versalius |
Wrote "On the Structure of the Human Body", first study of human anatomy |
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Ambtoise Pare |
French physician developed ointment for preventing infection, closed wounds with stitches |
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William Harvey |
English scholar, described circulation of blood, showed what heart does |
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Johannes Kepler |
German astronomer and mathematician calculated that universe was heliocentric and that planets orbit around Sun in an ellipse |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
Polish scholar published "On the Revolutions of the heavenly spheres", proposed heliocentric universe |
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Galileo |
Assembled astronomical telescope, had to withdraw statements by church |
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Rene Descartes |
French scholar, said "I think therefore I am" |
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Francis Bacon |
English scholar, stressed experimentation and observation/practical technology |
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Isaac Newton |
Discovered gravity |
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch inventor, first human to see cells and microorganisms |
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Antoine Lavoisier |
French scientist, proved that matter cannot be destroyed, only changed |
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Robert Boyle |
Alchemist, explained effect of temperature and pressure on gases |
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Joseph Priestly |
English scientist and philosopher discovered oxygen |
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Elizabeth 1 |
Made PEACE with religions |