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some inportant people and vocab for grade 9 social studies
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History
9th Grade
02/11/2008

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Martin Luther
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Leader of the lutherines protestants church,

posting the 95- theses began the church refomation

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William Shakespear
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great english play writer, 

he wrote about everyday life

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Copernicus
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Polish, mathmatition who in 1543 stated that the planets revolved around the sun not the earth
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galileo
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italian astronimer who proved that the planits do revolved around the sun by useing a telescope
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francis Bacon
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English scientist who developed the scientific method for reaseach in 1620
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Andreas Vesalius
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Italian astronamist who used the microscope to improve the knowledge of the human body
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Isaac Newton
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English scientist who discoverd the laws of gravity and mathmatical reasoning
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Sir walter Ruleigh
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English inventer who explored the americans and controled the trades in the seas
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Renaissance
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time of great revival, re-birth or knowledge, art, literature on the 14th to 16th centeries, making the transition from mideval to modern world middle ages the time period in europe history from about 500 to 1450 CE.

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reformation
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a great religious movement in europe during the   16th century to reform the roman catholic church
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protestant
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people who belonged to the christian congrgations that seperatedfrom roman catholic church during the reformation 
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Eucharist
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the sacrament of the last supper in christian theology
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serf
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a person attached to a lords land and requierd to give services to the lord
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tenant
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a person who pays rent for the use of land to the land lord
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empire

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a group or states or territories controlled by one country
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anatomist
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a dissector of dead bodys
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theses
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a thougth backed up with information

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profound
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deep into thought or subject or a good understanding
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middle class
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people in between high and low sociaty
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