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Humanism
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to focus on worldly, not religious, subjects
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Recant
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to take back
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Indulgence
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time off in Purgatory in exchange for money
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Predestination
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the idea that your fate is already decided
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Patron
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one who supports something financially
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Annul
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to invalidate or cancel
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Canonize
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to make someone a saint
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Scapegoat
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someone to place blame on
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Heliocentric
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with the sun at the center
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Perspective
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a technique for making art look 3-D
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The rebirth of culture and learning known as the Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in...
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Italy
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The leading city of the Italian Renaissance was...
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Florence
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One of the most influential writers of the Renaissance was...
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ideas were spread in the Renaissance by...
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word of mouth
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Who wrote a list of 95 theses against indulgences and nailed them to the door of the church in Wittenberg?
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Martin Luther
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The English Reformation began in 1533 when Henry VIII broke with the pope because...
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the pope refused to grant Henry a divorce from Catherine of Aragon
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The French and Dutch drew their Protestantism chiefly from...
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John Calvin
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Why was the printing press such an important invention? How did it change society?
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The printing press was such an important invention because it allowed written work to be distributed widely, quickly, and cheaply. It changed society by allowing nearly everyone to gain a copy of the Bible for themselves and so people stopped solely believing the priests (they found out they were being lied to.)
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Explain 2 advances made in science during the Scientific Revolution. How were they different than what was previously believed?
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1) The Sun is the center of the solar system, not the Earth.
2) Newton defined gravity; earlier, it was not known how we stayed on the ground, only that we did. |
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Identify one group that was persecuted during the late Renaissance. How were they persecuted?
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Anyone believed to be a witch was burned at the stake, drowned, drawn and quartered, etc. They were put on "trials" in which the odds were impossibly stacked against them (Ex. Let's throw that lady in the lake, if she floats, she's a witch, if she drowns, we made a mistake.)
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