Unit 4: Land-based Empires

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  1. 2. is considered the father of modern science and made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy.
  2. 3. an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions.
  3. 5. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
  4. 6. An influential, wealthy person who supports an artist, craftsman, scholar, or aristocrat.
  5. 8. propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences
  6. 11. an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman and secretary of the Florentine republic. His most famous work, The Prince (1532), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic.
  7. 12. a German priest, monk, and theologian who became the central figure of the religious and cultural movement known as the Protestant Reformation.
  8. 13. a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits.
  9. 14. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
  10. 15. a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy.
  11. 16. 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.
  12. 17. member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers.
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  1. 1. 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.
  2. 4. a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.
  3. 7. they are an apostolic religious community called the Society of Jesus.
  4. 9. The exercise of political power by the clergy or laity of a particular religion, usually, although not necessarily, claiming to be acting primarily on behalf of a divinity and governing according to its principles and requirements.
  5. 10. a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.