2nd Semester Vocab. Review

4. a 16th-century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the pope’s authority.
7. new navigation technology that allowed for the Age of Exploration
9. a philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain.
11. a period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world.
13. the everyday language of people in a region or country.
14. a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin.
15. a medieval peasant legally bound to live on a lord’s estate.
19. a family’s payment of one-tenth of its income to a church.
20. a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.
21. a person who supports artists, especially financially.

1. a lord’s estate in feudal Europe.
2. the era in European history that followed the fall of the Roman Empire, lasting from about 500 to 1500—also called the medieval period.
3. an artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface.
5. a religious community of men (called monks) who have given up their possessions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship.
6. a member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation.
8. created the printing press in Europe
10. the taking away of a person’s right of membership in a Christian church.
12. European explorer who circumnavigated the globe
16. a Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai.
17. European explorer who discovered the West Indies
18. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.