Change in Europe
A period of rebirth and renewed interest in Greek and Roman culture.
What is the Renaissance?
A ruler with complete power over a state.
What is an absolute monarch?
Europeans called the American continent this.
What is the New World
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The process of testing ideas using evidence and experiments.
What is the scientific method?
The movement that challenged the Catholic Church in the 1500s.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The belief that rulers receive their authority from God.
What is divine right?
Farming method using steps cut into mountainsides.
What is terrace farming?
A journey to a holy place.
What is a pilgrimage?
A machine invented by Gutenberg that spread ideas quickly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
The Renaissance idea focused on human achievement and potential.
What is humanism?
A system in the Ottoman Empire that allowed religious groups to govern themselves.
What is the Millet System?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Acceptance of different religions or beliefs.
What is tolerance?
Carefully studying something using the senses.
What is observation?
Paying money for forgiveness of sins.
What are indulgences?
A government worker chosen through testing rather than birth.
What is a civil servant?
The Inca system of using different mountain levels for different resources.
What is a vertical economy?
A person or group unfairly blamed for problems or disasters.
What is a scapegoat?
A new idea, method, or invention.
What is an innovation?
The Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
The process of making a country more advanced using new ideas and technology.
What is modernization?
Native to a particular place; the original inhabitants of a region.
What is Indigenous?
The mistreatment of a group because of religion or identity.
What is persecution?
Testing an idea to see if it is supported by evidence.
What is experimentation?