unit 1 vocab world civ Flashcards
Council of trent
A meeting of Catholic church authorities held in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to address the Protestant Reformation
Henery VIII
Broke away from the catholic church to divorce his wife
Vatican
The palece of the pope in rome
Catholic
People who believe there is one God who is the trinity and they do confessions and provide for the church to get to heaven
Protestant
Follower of the western Christian church
Humanism
Way of life centered on human interests
Indulegnces
Allowing yourself or someone else to have something enjoyable
Martin Luther
Protested agaisnt the catholic church with 95 theses
Michelangelo
Known for his paintings and sculptures
Leonardo Da Vinci
Known for his different paintings
Galileo
He discovered that ll planets revolve around the sun
Heliocentric
Having or representing the sun as the center
Medieval
Middle ages in between 1400 and 1450
Geocentric
Relating to or measured from the earth’s center
Renaissance Man
A cultured man of the Renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields
Currency
A system of money to buy things
King
The male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth
Lord
Master/ruler or someone with power
Knight
A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
Serf
A person who is forced to work on a plot of land
Manor
Large estates owned by wealthy families and used as a residence and for agricultural purposes
Feudalism
A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return
Printing press
A machine that you and switch around to print loads of newspaper at a time
Silk road
Ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China
Black death/black plague
An outbreak that killed ⅓ of the population
