EMMW Unit 3 Vocab
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- Pope Innocent III
- A Pope who led the fourth Crusade
- Mercenary
- military personnel hired by a foreign army
- Salvation
- a means of preservation from harm or sin
- France
- a republic in western Europe
- Machiavelli
- An Italian diplomat and political theorist who advised the Medici family
- Zurich
- Swiss city where Zwingli started the Swiss Reformation
- Feudalism
- the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C where Peasants served Lords who served Kings
- Printing Press
- tool invented by Gutenberg to efficiently print books
- Secular
- not specifically religious
- Martin Luther
- German theologian who led the Reformation
- Europe
- the nations of the European continent collectively
- Constantinople
- the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, now called Istanbul
- Saladin
- A Muslim leader who successfully resisted and fought against the third crusade
- Indulgence
- the gratification of a whim or desire, or a certificate bought from the Chuch to allow sin
- Geneva
- a city in southwestern Switzerland at the western end of Lake Geneva
- Interpretation
- the act of interpreting something, such as an artistic performance
- Italy
- a republic in southern Europe which extends into the Mediterranean
- Florence
- a city in east-central Italy which was the cultural capital of the Renaissance
- Da Vinci
- A diversely talented intellectual who dabbled in many arts during the Renaissance
- Jerusalem
- capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel which is considered holy in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
- Zwingli
- Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in Switzerland (1484-1531)
- Predestination
- previous determination as if by destiny or fate, proposed by Calvin
- Gun Powder
- Explosive substance that gave Chinese an advantage over Mongals
- Wittenberg
- church where Martin Luther displayed the 95 theses
- Baghdad
- capital city of Iraq, where many Muslim intellectuals studied
- Literacy
- the ability to read and write
- Protestant
- a Christian faith which recognizes God but not the Pope
- Erasmus
- Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe and founder of Christian Humanism
- Urban
- characteristic of cities and densely populated areas
- Crusade
- one of the continuous military expeditions waged by Christian Europeans against Muslims during the 11th through 13th centuries
- Michelangelo
- A Florentine sculptor, painter and architect who thrived during the Renaissance
- Medici
- A powerful Italian family which ruled Florence during the Renaissance
- Rome
- capital and largest city of Italy where the Catholic Church is headquartered
- Humanism
- a doctrine of promotion of human welfare, not necessarily tied to religion, which arose during the Enlightenment
- Gutenberg
- German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
- Surplus
- a quantity larger than is needed
- Castiglione
- A Renaissance writer and nobleman who wrote The Courtier
- Infidel
- a non-believer
- Venice
- a prominent Italian port city during the Renaissance which had a vast trade empire
- Black Plague
- the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
- Pope Urban II
- A Pope who started the first Crusade
- 95 Theses
- a list of complaints and reflections upon the Catholic church by Martin Luther
- Calvin
- Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
- Cordoba
- a Muslim city in southern Spain which was the most beautiful city in Europe during the Renaissance
- Milan
- a prominent Italian city during the Renaissance which is the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy and lies on prominent trading routes