Chapter 14
This is a person in the lowest class of medieval society.
Who is a serf?
This is a belief that is rejected by official church doctrine.
What is Heresy?
These are the laws that govern the natural world and human affairs.
What is natural laws?
This is the French word for Rebirth.
What is Renaissance?
The religious movement that began in the 1500s to reform the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
This is the more famous name for Charles the Great.
What is Charlemagne.
This event prompted Europeans to explore other parts of the world.
What is the Crusades?
This spread from Asia into Europe through Italy, resulting in many dead.
What is the Black Death?
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This is the best-known work of Thomas Moore.
What is Utopia?
This important leader of the reformation would start a large protestant movement in the German States.
Who is Martin Luther?
In 1519, this person launched the most ambitious voyage of discovery.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was the first person to describe the Law of Gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This river is the longest river in Western Europe and empties into the Black Sea.
What is the Danube River?
This was the leader of the group of people that conquered England in 1066.
Who was William the Conqueror.
This term was used for people who were blamed for things they did not do.
What is Scapegoat?
This word means someone who gives money or other support to a person or group, generally associated with the arts.
What is patron?
This is when the government is made up of religious leaders.
What is theocracy?
Who is Moctezuma?
The belief that all knowledge can be gained through the use of reason alone.
What is Rationalism?
This was the name the community of Christians had for Europe.
What is Christendom?
King John was forced to sign this document.
What is Magna Carta?
This system of planting resulted in an increase in the amount of land that was planted each year.
What is the three-field system?
This banking family was the most powerful family in Florence.
Who was the Medici family?
This person founded the Jesuits.
Who is St. Ignatius Loyola?
These people are church members who try to convert people to a particular religion.
This person was the Scottish writer that wrote the book 'The Wealth of Nations'?
Who is Adam Smith?
What is Angels?
This person married Fedinand of Aragon.
Who is Isabella of Castile-Leon?
This person founded one of the best known mendicant orders and is typically associated with animals.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
This Dutch Scholar embraced the teachings of Jesus and would go on to oppose Lutheranism.
Who is Erasmus?
This ruler of Spain was champion of the Counter Reformation.
Who is Philip II.
This Captain sailed south from Portugal and was the first European to reach India by Sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This is the process from a specific fact to a general principle.
What is Inductive Reasoning?