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- Which scientist discovered the law of universal gravitation
- Who is credited with the invention of the telescope
- Who argued that humans have natural rights to life, liberty, and property
- The Enlightenment thinkers, or philosophes, tried to change the world by
- If Voltaire saw the universe as a clock, who wound the clock?
- In what area of belief were Voltaire and Diderot alike?
- In addition, the Nazis murdered ______________________they deemed inferior.
- The Nazis proclaimed that the Germanic peoples or ___ were a "master race" and that all non-Aryan peoples, especially ___ people were inferior.
- How did Hitler use concentration camps and extermination camps, such as Auschwitz, in their attempt to eliminate the entire population of the Jewish people?
- The Nazis focus mainly on eliminating the Jews. What other groups did they try to eliminate because they define these people as inferior, as well?
- Philip MelancthonJohn WycliffEmphasis on sermonsPrimacy of ScriptureJohn KnoxAnabaptistsHenry VIIIMartin LutherJustification by faith aloneAugsburg Confessionpredestination
- Archbishop of CanterburyBook of Common PrayerAccepts most Catholic teachings, rejects PapacyElizabth IEpiscopal Church
- SavaronolaInquisitionMissalTeresa of AvilaIgnatius of LoyolaFaith & good works go together, importantTradition (also Orthodoxy)Papal authorityMass, Transubstantiation
- Why was the Church so important in the lives of people?
- What was the effects of the three-field system? a. Farmers could grow crops on one-half of their land b. Farmers produced more food and villagers had more to eat. c. Farmers could grow crops on one-third of their land d. Farmers could let their ground lie fallow over the winter
- The main difference between the original Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire of Frederick I was that
- What did the Magna Carta guarantee? a. basic legal rights b. a House of Commons c. a model parliament d. the end of taxation
- Pope Gregory VII and the German emperor Henry IV fought over the issue of
- What was the chief goal of the Crusades? a. to improve trade among Europe and Asia and Africa b. to force the Byzantines to become Catholics c. to recover Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks d. to spread Christianity throughout Europe and Asia and Africa
- What was the name of the legislative body of medieval England?a. Inquisition b. Estates General c. royal courts of justice d. parliament