Vocab 7

Question 1

Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300’s through the 1600’s; the word means rebirth

Answer 1

Renaissance

Question 2

Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis

Answer 2

Scientific Method

Question 3

Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious issues

Answer 3

Humanism

Question 4

Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe

Answer 4

Heliocentric

Question 5

Person who provides financial support for the arts

Answer 5

Patron

Question 6

Period in the 1500’s and 1600’s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation

Answer 6

Scientific Revolution

Question 7

Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa

Answer 7

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 8

Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the solar system

Answer 8

Copernicus

Question 9

Artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect

Answer 9

Perspective

Question 10

Force that tends to pull one mass or object to another

Answer 10

Gravity

Question 11

English poet and playwright of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories

Answer 11

William Shakespeare

Question 12

Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory

Answer 12

Galileo

Question 13

English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy

Answer 13

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 14

Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel

Answer 14

Michelangelo

Question 15

Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches

Answer 15

Protestant Reformation

Question 16

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters

Answer 16

Secular

Question 17

List of 95 arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517

Answer 17

Ninety-Five Theses

Question 18

German monk who began the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses

Answer 18

Martin Luther

Question 19

Religious belief contrary to the official teachings of a Church

Answer 19

Heresy

Question 20

Idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation

Answer 20

Predestination

Question 21

Calvinists believe that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth. John Calvin believed in predestination

Answer 21

Calvinism

Question 22

In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s lifetime

Answer 22

Indulgence

Question 23

Give up one’s views or beliefs

Answer 23

Recant

Question 24

Protestant reformer who preached predestination

Answer 24

John Calvin

Question 25

Cancel or invalidate

Answer 25

Annul