World History Unit 3 Vocab

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Humanism

Intellectual movement focused on education and the classics

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Humanities

Study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history in ancient Greece and Rome

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Vernacular

Everyday language of ordinary people

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Florence

City in northern Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance

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Patron

Person who provides financial support for the arts

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Perspective

Artistic technique for a three-dimensional effect in paintings and drawings

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Engraving

Art form where an artist etches a design on a metal plate and makes multiple prints

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Utopian

Idealistic or visionary, describing a perfect society

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Indulgence

Pardon for sins in the Roman Catholic Church

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Wittenberg

City in Germany where Luther drew up his 95 Theses

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Diet

Assembly or legislature

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Predestination

Calvinist belief in God's predetermined salvation

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Theocracy

Government run by religious leaders

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Geneva

Swiss city-state that became a Calvinist theocracy

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Sect

Subgroup or major religious group

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Canonize

Recognize a person as a saint

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Compromise

Agreement with concessions, an acceptable middle ground

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Council of Trent

Group of Catholic leaders that met to respond to Protestant challenges and direct the Catholic Church

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Heliocentric

Belief that the sun is the center of the universe

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Scientific Method

Step-by-step process to confirm findings and prove or disprove a hypothesis

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Hypothesis

Unproved theory accepted for explaining facts or further investigation

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Calculus

Branch of mathematics using special symbolic notations, developed by Isaac Newton

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Gravity

Force that attracts objects toward each other, developed by Isaac Newton

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