Europe during the middleages part 2

Question 1

anglican

Answer 1

of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it.

Question 2

95 theses

Answer 2

95 Theses. The 95 Theses, a document written by Martin Luther in 1517, challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church on the nature of penance, the authority of the pope and the usefulness of indulgences.

Question 3

counter reformation

Answer 3

the reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries that was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation.

Question 4

zwingli an

Answer 4

A swingline loan is a financial loan made by a banking institution.

Question 5

Ignatius of Loyola

Answer 5

1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.

Question 6

Council of trent

Answer 6

The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church ‘s most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

Question 7

Jesuits

Answer 7

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. The order was zealous in opposing the Reformation. Despite periodic persecution it has retained an important influence in Catholic thought and education.

Question 8

City-State

Answer 8

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

Question 9

Scientific revolution

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the period of advances in science that was at its height in the 17th century and produced widespread change in traditional beliefs held since the Middle Ages

Question 10

Heliocentic Theory

Answer 10

. : referred to or measured from the sun’s center or appearing as if seen from it. 2. : having or relating to the sun as center — compare geocentric.

Question 11

Roger Bacon

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Roger Bacon-English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292).

Question 12

Corpernicus

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a crater in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having an extensive ray system: about 56 miles (90 km) in diameter from crest to crest with walls rising about 12,000 feet (3650 meters) from its floor; having several central mountains the highest being about 2400 feet (730 meters).

Question 13

Kepler

Answer 13

crater on the Moon in Oceanus Procellarum, 32 km20 mi in diameter

Question 14

Galileo

Answer 14

an American space probe to Jupiter launched in 1989. It reached the vicinity of Jupiter in 1995 and released a probe which descended into Jupiter’s atmosphere.

Question 15

Scientific Method

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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.

Question 16

Newton

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a city in eastern Massachusetts, on the Charles River, west of Boston; pop. 82,139 (est. 2008).

Question 17

Vesalius

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1514–64, Flemish anatomist.

Question 18

Descartes

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(1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and man of science. He concluded that everything was open to doubt except conscious experience and existence as a necessary condition of this: “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am). In mathematics, he developed the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions.

Question 19

Robert Boyle

Answer 19

. Robert Boyle - Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)Robert Boyle - Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)