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renaissance/reform
chapter 1-4, world history
Question | Answer |
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person who provides financial support for the arts | patron |
intellectual movement at the heart of the renaissance that focused on wordly views rather than religious issues | humanism |
study of subjects taught in the ancient Greece and Rome, such as grammar, rhetoric poetry, and history | humanities |
artistic technique used to give drawings and paintings a three-dimensional effect | perspective |
art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints | engraving |
everyday language of ordinary people | vernacular |
ideal society | utopia |
in the roman catholic church, pardon for sins committed during a persons lifetime | indulgence |
give up ones views or beliefs | recant |
idea that god long ago determined who will gain salvation | predestination |
government run by religious leaders | theocracy |
cancel or invalidate | annul |
recognize one as a saint | canonize |
acceptable middle ground | compromise |
person, group, or thing forced to take the blame for the crimes or mistakes of others | scapegoat |
seperate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live | ghetto |
based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe | heliocentric |
possible explanation | hypothesis |
painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis | scientific method |
force that tends to pull on mass of object toward another | gravity |