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The Reformation and Scientific Revolution
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9th Grade
02/28/2010

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Savonarola
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He believed in pure, Christian living. He was declared a heretic by Alexander VI.
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Erasmus
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He wrote In Praise of Folly.
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More
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He wrote Utopia.
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Gutenberg
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He invented the printing press.
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Luther
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He wrote the 95 Theses. Leo X and Charles V decided to excommunicate him from the church and exile him from the Holy Roman Empire at the Diet of Worms. (This decision was called the Edict of Worms.)
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Calvin
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He believed in Pre-Destination. He set up a theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Knox
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He founded Presbyterianism.
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Henry VIII
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He married Catherine of Aragon. Because she never had a son, she was useless and Henry wanted an annultion. Pope refused and Henry became mad. He then let Parliment vote on the Act of Supremacy for the new Church of England.
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Catherine of Aragon
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She was Henry VIII's first wife.
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Charles V
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He was the Holy Roman Empire who exiled Luther and convinced the pope to refuse Henry VIII an annultion from Catherine of Aragon.
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Ann Bolyn
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She was Henry VIII's "other" wife. She never gave him a son and was eventually killed.
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Alexander VI
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He was a Pope. He declared Savonarola a heretic and killed him three times (burned, hanged, burned again).
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Julius II
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He was a pope who renovated the Vatican.
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Leo X
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He was a pope who issued the Papal Bull and Diet of Worms on Luther.
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Paul III
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He was a pope who was a Catholic Reformer. He called together the Council of Trent to fix the abuses of the church.
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Paul IV
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He was a pope who was a Counter Reformer. He created the "Index of Forbidden Books" and burned books.
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Ignatious Loyola
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He was a Spanish priest who was both a Counter and Catholic Reformer. He gathered a band of followers. They were called the Society of Jesus or Jesuits. His missions were: -founding schools -converting people to Christians -proventing Protestantism.
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nepotism
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This is when a job is given to a family member.
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simony
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practice of buying a position
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indulgences
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If bought, sins would be forgiven.
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95 Theses
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They were written by Luther and posted on the doors of a church in Wittenberg.
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Wittenberg, Germany
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This is where the 95 Theses were posted by Luther.
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Papal Bull
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Leo X issued it. He ordered Luther to take back all of his ideas posted in the 95 Theses.
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Diet of Worms
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This was the meeting to decide what to do with Luther.
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Edict of Worms
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This was the decision of the Diet of Worms. Leo X and Charles V excommunicated him from the church and exiled him from the Holy Roman Empire.
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predestination
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This is the belief that everything in your life is predestined and that God has already decided if you go to heaven or hell.
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theocracy
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It's the combination of church and government. The church leaders are also the government leaders.
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Consistory
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This was the religious court for Calvinists.
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The Elect
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These were Calvinists courts.
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Geneva, Switzerland
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This is where Calvin set up a theocracy.
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Presbyterianism
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This was founded by Knox. They believed that church and government should be separted, that you should be baptized when you're an adult and they were pacifists.
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Anabaptist
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This is when you're baptized when you're an adult.
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Act of Supremacy
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This was Parliment's law that created the Church of England in 1534.
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Peace of Ausberg
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Charles V agreed to let German princes become Lutheran or remain Catholic.
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Catholic Reformation
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The reformation where people tried to fix the abuses of the church.
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Counter Reformation
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The reformation where people tried to destroy Protestantism.
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Copernicus
Definition
The church asked him to fix the calender. He wrote "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres" which was too complex for others to read. He believed in the heliocentric theory.
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Tartaglia and Benedetti
Definition
Tartaglia was an expert on the cannon and noticed the cannonball curving in the air.

Benedetti determined that it was surface area that created resistance.
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Galileo
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He rolled balls down slopes and proved the Law of Exelerating Motion. He wrote "The Starry Messenger" that was basically the heliocentric theory. Church made him sign something which made him take everything back in his book.
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Brahe
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He was the crazy guy living on an island off of Denmark. He discovered a comet flying not in a circular path.
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Kepler
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He interpreted Brahe's work. He figured ou that speeds of planets are different and the closer they are to the sun, the faster they go (The Three Laws of Planetary Motion).
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Descartes
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He discovered that you can plot equations into a graph.
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Newton
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He named the force "gravity".
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