Flying Buttress - the external arch shaped supports that allowed Gothic cathedrals to soar ever higher, with ever thinner stone walls and increased window area; an engineering miracle
Gothic - The architectural style used in cathedrals of the High Middle Ages characterized by soaring pointed arches supported by external flying buttresses.
Hellenistic Culture - general term for the flourishing of new knowledge that occurred in the aftermatch of Alexander's conquering numerous other regions (Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Persia, and portions of India)
Heliocentric Theory - the theory that the sun is stationary and the planets revolve around it; in Europe first articulated by Copernicus. Contrasts with Geocentric Theory
Methodological Skepticism - Descartes' approach to the scientific method, that is, being skeptical about EVERYTHING, that is "taking everything off the table" and starting to build knowledge again from first, provable principles.
Natural Law - principles of human behavior and interaction that Philosophes hoped to figure out by applying the principles of the scientific method to government and economics.
Printing Press w/Moveable Type - Johann Gutenberg is credited with combining these technologies sometime in the 1450s (I tend to use 1453 as the date) to mass produce printed copies of the Bible. This advance is considered among the most impactful in Western History, as it expotentially increased access to books and literacy.
Romanesque - The architectural style of the early Middle Ages, characterized by rounded arches and heavy walls
Scientific Method - the approach to knowledge which arose in the late Renaissance (associated with Frances Bacon and Rene Descartes) which suggested that scientific understanding should be developed through the creation of hypotheses, the testign of these hypotheses through experimentation and observation, that the results would yeild modification of the theories, and the cylce begins again
Thesis - a proposed theory about the cause(s) of something. By definition, it requires prooving. In the context of a Social Sciences paper, it is a brief (ideally one sentence) statement that outlines your theory and the main points into which you have organized evidence to prove that theory.
Vernacular - the language of the common people (in contrast to the scholarly languages like Latin, Greek, Arabic)
Gothic - The architectural style used in cathedrals of the High Middle Ages characterized by soaring pointed arches supported by external flying buttresses.
Hellenistic Culture - general term for the flourishing of new knowledge that occurred in the aftermatch of Alexander's conquering numerous other regions (Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Persia, and portions of India)
Heliocentric Theory - the theory that the sun is stationary and the planets revolve around it; in Europe first articulated by Copernicus. Contrasts with Geocentric Theory
Methodological Skepticism - Descartes' approach to the scientific method, that is, being skeptical about EVERYTHING, that is "taking everything off the table" and starting to build knowledge again from first, provable principles.
Natural Law - principles of human behavior and interaction that Philosophes hoped to figure out by applying the principles of the scientific method to government and economics.
Printing Press w/Moveable Type - Johann Gutenberg is credited with combining these technologies sometime in the 1450s (I tend to use 1453 as the date) to mass produce printed copies of the Bible. This advance is considered among the most impactful in Western History, as it expotentially increased access to books and literacy.
Romanesque - The architectural style of the early Middle Ages, characterized by rounded arches and heavy walls
Scientific Method - the approach to knowledge which arose in the late Renaissance (associated with Frances Bacon and Rene Descartes) which suggested that scientific understanding should be developed through the creation of hypotheses, the testign of these hypotheses through experimentation and observation, that the results would yeild modification of the theories, and the cylce begins again
Thesis - a proposed theory about the cause(s) of something. By definition, it requires prooving. In the context of a Social Sciences paper, it is a brief (ideally one sentence) statement that outlines your theory and the main points into which you have organized evidence to prove that theory.
Vernacular - the language of the common people (in contrast to the scholarly languages like Latin, Greek, Arabic)