Renaissance and Reformation Flashcard

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Who is a wealthy person who pays artists and writers to produce their work?

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Patron

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What is the system of observing and experimenting to determine whether an idea should be accepted as true?

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Scientific Method

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What is the idea that humans are able to think for themselves and have the ability to grow, associated with the Renaissance?

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Humanism

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What term describes the period from about 1400 to 1600 in which Europeans entered an age of thought, learning, and science?

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Renaissance

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Which class grew out of the cities of the Renaissance and is between the rich landowners and the poor serfs?

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Middle Class

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What invention by Johanna Gutenberg used 'moveable type' to create books and bibles?

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Printing Press

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What is the belief that the sun is the center of the Universe?

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Heliocentric Theory

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What was the only Christian church before the Reformation?

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Catholic Church

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Who is the leader of the Catholic Church?

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Pope

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What was the religious movement that began in Europe in the 1500s as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church?

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Reformation