Vocab
Every day spoken Language
Vernacular
A belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine
Heresy
Where was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Florence
Who was the leader of the Reformation?
Who is the Father of Physics
Isaac Newton
The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs
Secularism
A cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works
Humanism
Who was the most powerful family during the Renaissance?
Medici
What was Luther's rebuttal to the corruption found within the Catholic Church
95 Theses
Nicholas Copernicus
French for "Rebirth"; refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300s to the 1500s
Renaissance
A religious movement that began in the 1500s to reform the Catholic Church
Reformation
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michaelangelo
What meeting did the Catholic church call to allow Luther to recant his statements?
The Diet of Worms
Who proved the Heliocentric Theory?
Galileo Galilei
the theory that places the sun at the center of the universe.
Heliocentric Theory
A kind of cancellation of punishment for sin
Who was the Renaissance man?
Leonardo Da Vinci
To restore the moral authority of the Catholic church, the Pope called these meetings
The Council of Trent
Who thought scientists should rely on their own observations to explain nature?
Francis Bacon
A format of printmaking, in which individual letters formed in metal could be used again and again.
Moveable Type
A mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Linear Perspective
What category do Arithmetic, Geometry, and Rhetoric fall in?
Liberal Arts
A government that is ruled by church leaders is called what?
Theoacracies
What French philosopher said "I think, therefore I am"
Rene Descartes