Europe During the Middle Ages Pt.2 Vocab Flashcards
Anglican
Of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.
95 Theses
A list of questions and propositions for debate.
Counter Reformation
The reform movement in the Roman Catholic Church following the Reformation.
Zwingli
A leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
Ignatius of Loyola
A Spanish priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General.
Council of Trent
Council of, the ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that met at Trent intermittently from 1545 to 1563, and defined church doctrine and condemned the Reformation.
Jesuits
A member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work.
City-State
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
Scientific Revolution
The emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
Heliocentic Theory
The astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
Roger Bacon
An English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods.
Copernicus
Of or relating to Copernicus or the belief that the earth rotates daily on its axis and the planets revolve in orbits around the sun.
Kepler
A space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars.
Galileo
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642) Galileo Galilei.
Scientific Method
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.
