People
Catholic monk whose actions are seen as the start of the Protestant Reformation.
What is Martin Luther?
Protestant belief that salvation is determined at birth.
What is predestination?
Wealth found in various Italian city-states led to the beginning of this in the 14th century.
What is the Renaissance?
Earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory/model?
Reformation theologian who preached that salvation was determined at birth.
What is John Calvin?
A government run by religion laws and virtues.
What is a theocracy?
Measure taken by the Catholic Church to prevent Europeans from reading about ideas such as the sun being the center of the universe.
What is banning books?
Someone who goes against the teachings of the church.
What is a heretic?
Scientist who, in 1514, first proposed the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun.
What is Nicholas Copernicus?
The Catholic Church's attempt to sell pardons from sin.
What are indulgences?
The revolutionary period with changes in art, religious thought and science was aided by this development.
What is printing/the printing press?
Device improved upon during the 16th century that allowed scientists to observe tiny particles.
What is the microscope?
What is Johannes Gutenberg?
New word in the English language based on a 16th century book.
Policy established by the Catholic Church in the 15th century to root out and punish people seen as going against the Church.
What is the Inquisition?
Multi-step process that includes observation and experimentation.
What is the scientific method?
Person whose famous book who many leaders from later generations misinterpreted and lead with brutality.
What is Niccolo Machiavelli?
A scientist named Johannes Kepler discovered this about the planets in our universe.
What are elliptical orbits?
Group that believed salvation was determined at birth and eventually settled in the New World.
What are the Puritans?
Theory that the Catholic Church finally allowed people to read about in the 18th century.
What is the heliocentric theory?