Europe pt.2 Flashcards
Anglican
is a tradition within Christianity comprising the Church of England and churches which are historically tied to it or hold similar beliefs, worship practices and church structures.
95 theses
a list of propositions for an academic disputation written by Martin Luther in 1517
counter reformation
the period of Catholic revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the council of Trent (1545-1563) and ending at the Thirty Years War (1648).
zwinglian
was a leader of the reformation in Switzerland
Ignatius of loyola
a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
Council of Trent
one of the Roman Catholic church’s most important ecumenical councils
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 rapid advances in European scientific, mathematical, and political thought, based on a new philosophy of empiricism and a faith in progress that defined Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
heliocentric theory
a model of the solar system that posits a central place for the Sun, with the planets orbiting it.
Roger bacon
an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed the study of nature through empirical methods.
copernicus
the earth rotates daily on its axis and the planets revolve in orbits around the sun
kepler
the founder of celestial mechanics.
galileo
the first to use a telescope to study the first stars