Explorers
Explorer who landed in the Americas while trying to find a route to India
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Man who began the Protestant Reformation in Germany
Who was Martin Luther?
1611 authorized English version of the Bible that was used almost universally until the late 19th century
What is the King James Version?
law that names King Henry VIII as the supreme head of the Church of England
What was the Act of Supremacy?
model of the solar system with the sun at the center
What is heliocentric?
Spaniard who discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Perpetual Youth
Who was Ponce de Leon?
Scottish reformer who helped lead a revolt against the Catholic royalty and establish the Presbyterian Church
Who was John Knox?
the most popular English Bible during the Reformation and the first to be divided into verses
What is the Geneva Bible?
Queen of England who stabilized the Church of England as a half-way point between Protestant and Catholic
Who was Elizabeth I?
commoners who cultivate their own land
What are yeomen?
led the expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the globe
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
leader of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva
Who was John Calvin?
Latin translation of the Bible by St. Jerome which was used universally in the West until the Protestant Reformation
What is the Vulgate?
council at which Charles V condemned Luther as a heretic
What was the Diet of Worms?
involving unsavory activities
What is sordid?
Explorer who first sailed to India by sea
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Leader of the Swiss Protestant movement in Zurich
Who was Huldrych Zwingli?
English priest who de-emphasized the importance of the clergy and Church authority and translated the Bible into English
Who was John Wyclif?
Henry VIII's principal advisor after Thomas More; did the work of dissolving the monastaries
Who was Thomas Cromwell?
devotional book by Thomas a Kempis that was popular throughout Europe
What is Imitatio Christi?
Younger son of King of Portugal who commission many exploratory voyages
Who was Prince Henry of Portugal?
Follower of Luther and leader of the German Reformation movement
Who was Philipp Melanchthon?
humanist who first translated the Bible into French
Who was Jacques Lefevre?
statement of doctrine approved by Elizabeth I for the Church of England
What were the Thirty-Nine Articles?
hardened
What is indurate?