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10th Grade World History Unit 5
HEB ISD LD Bell 10th Grade World History Unit Five
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10th Grade
10/06/2019

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Big Events that Ended the Middle Ages
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The Crusades, The Black Death, The Great Schism, and the Hundred Year's War
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Renaissance
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A period of great intellectual and artistic creativity between the 14th and 17th centuries
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Leonardo DaVinci
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A sculptor, inventor, and painter of the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
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Michelangelo
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Florentine artist who made sculptures such as "David," "Moses," and the "Pieta"
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Brunelleschi
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Created the Florence Cathedral
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The Reformation
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Creation of the Protestant churches
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Martin Luther
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Augustinian monk who posted the 95 theses on the church door in Germany in 1517
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John Calvin
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Reformer who started a new Protestant church in Geneva
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Scientific Revolution
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Introduced scientific method to observe nature and test hypotheses
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Copernicus
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Polish scientist who concluded the Earth orbited the Sun
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Galileo
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Italian scientist who used a telescope to determine the Earth's orbit
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Secularism
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When people began to show greater interest in the world than in the afterlife
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Humanism
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The idea of placing a greater emphasis on the uniqueness of each person instead of religion
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Human Reason
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Greek thinking influenced an emphasis on human reasoning
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Renaissance Architecture
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Columns and circular arches featured
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Scientific Revolution
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Shift in thinking about the natural world from religious ideas to using scientific methods instead
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Printing Press
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Machine for printing text or pictures
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Scientific Method
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Observing things, making hypotheses about relationships, and then testing through experiments
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Indulgences
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A release from some or all punishment for sin by the Catholic church, reducing time in purgatory after death
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Ninety-Five Theses
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Statements posted by Martin Luther that challenged the Pope's right to sell indulgences
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Counter-Reformation
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Movement to revive Catholicism in response to the Reformation
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Secular
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Not spiritual; relating to the natural world
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Vernacular
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Language spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or region
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Heretics
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People who believe or teach something that goes against accepted or official beliefs
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Predestination
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A belief that everything that will happen has already been decided by God or fate and cannot be changed
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Hundred Years' War
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A conflict between England and France over who would be the next king of France. It strengthened the power of monarchs, and led to the end of feudalism
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Great Schism
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Split between the Catholic church where multiple men simultaneously claimed to be the true Pope, damaging the reputation of the church and weakening its authority
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Excommunication
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To be expelled from the church
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Inquisition
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A court whose purpose was to punish heretics
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Isaac Newton
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scientist who discovered the laws of gravity
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Robert Boyle
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Irish chemist who conducted experiments on gases at different temperatures
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