Land-Based Empires

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  1. 2. German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds
  2. 3. propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517
  3. 9. an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written in about 1513 but not published until 1532
  4. 11. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.
  5. 12. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
  6. 15. a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits.
  7. 16. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
  8. 17. a Protestant sectarian of a radical movement arising in the 16th century and advocating the baptism and church membership of adult believers only, nonresistance, and the separation of church and state.
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  1. 1. a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism, a name used collectively to refer to the many religious groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church due to differences in doctrine.
  2. 4. Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. He was the first to use a telescope to study the stars and planets, and he discovered various astronomical phenomena and physical principles.
  3. 5. a person chosen, named, or honored as a special guardian, protector, or supporter a patron of the arts
  4. 6. a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
  5. 7. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
  6. 8. a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work
  7. 10. a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
  8. 13. belonging or relating to a Protestant church, found especially in Scotland or the United States, which is governed by a body of official people all of equal rank.
  9. 14. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.