Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution Vocabulary Quiz
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- 6. The belief that reason and experience must be present for the solution of problems.
- 7. Relating to earthly life rather than to religious or spiritual matters.
- 8. A movement of the Catholic Church, in reaction to the Reformation, in which Catholic leaders worked to correct abuses, to clarify & defend Catholic teachings, to condemn what they saw as Protestant errors, and to win back members.
- 10. Monarchy, A monarchy in which the ruler's power is unlimited.
- 11. A Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by John Calvin.
- 13. A religious movement that created a new form of Christianity known as Protestantism.
- 15. A soldier who fights for money rather than loyalty to a country.
- 19. Shapes like stretched circles; ovals.
- 21. A religious belief that God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will not.
- 23. A Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by Martin Luther.
- 25. Areas of study that focus on human life and culture, such as history, literature, and ethics.
- 26. Method, The steps for an orderly search for knowledge.
- 27. Revolution, A period from the 1500s to the 1700s in which many scientific advances changed people's traditional beliefs about science.
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- 1. Conducting negotiations between countries.
- 2. The attraction that the Earth or another celestial body has on an object or near its surface.
- 3. An Italian city-state and leading cultural center during the Renaissance.
- 4. Art, Art influenced by the styles and techniques of ancient Greece and Rome.
- 5. An independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory.
- 9. A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe.
- 12. A Christian who separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation.
- 14. Theory, A theory that Earth is the center of the solar system or the universe.
- 16. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.
- 17. A particular religious group within a larger faith.
- 18. A Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by King Henry VIII in England.
- 20. A way of showing the relationship between objects in a drawing to give the look of depth or distance.
- 22. A pardon, or forgiveness, of a sin.
- 24. Theory, A theory that places the sun at the center of the solar system with the planets, including Earth, revolving around it.