social studies
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- patron
- a person who supports artists
- isaac newton
- he discovered gravity
- renaissance
- the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
- medici family
- they gave up most of their wealth to the carrers of artists and thinkers
- moveable type
- letters and numbers made from individual pieces of metal
- reformation
- a religious movement that began in sixteenth-century europe as an attempt to reform the roman catholic church
- france
- louis the king crushed the power of the nobles, then the king gave special favors to the merchants in the growing cities
- scientific meathod
- a system of observing and experimenting to determine whether an idea should be accepted as true
- perspective
- point of view.
- clergy
- ordained church officers
- johannes gutenburg
- became the first european to print with moveable type
- heresy
- the denial beliefs of a church
- spain
- they drove more than 200,000 jews from spain
- gravity
- the force that holds objects to the earthand keeps the planets circling the sun
- pope leo x
- leader of the catholic church he spent church money on himself and as a patron of the arts
- reconquesta
- a plan to make spain all catholic; also called the reconquest
- indulgence
- a pardon for sins
- galileo
- found out that the world was round when he invented the telescope and proved that copernicus was right
- england
- the uniting of england took the longest of the three, henry married a neice of richard III to unite the warring families and make his claim to the thrown stronger
- copernicus
- was the first to find out that the world is round and nobody believed him
- martin luther
- he started the lutheran church
- leonardo da vinci
- painted the mona lisa, and is a engeneer, inventor, writer, and a artist
- protestant
- people who protested against the catholic church
- telescope
- an instrument that can make faraway things look close
- michelangelo
- painted the sisteen chapel