Middle Ages / Renaissance Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed ⅓ of people
  2. 6. Intellectual movement based on the classics that stressed human beings as the center of the universe with dignity and value.
  3. 7. supporter
  4. 8. nomads of the Asian steppe
  5. 9. a code to be brave and loyal that knights adopted in the late Middle Ages
  6. 11. ideal perfection
  7. 12. an estate that included the peasants that worked the land
  8. 13. an ethnic group native to Hungary
  9. 15. lending money at interest
  10. 18. Rebirth
  11. 19. the system of law based on case law and precedent rather than codified law that emerged in England in the Middle Ages,
  12. 21. ancient nomadic civilization with strong military
  13. 22. worldly
Down
  1. 1. relating to the Middle Ages
  2. 2. a political and social system where a powerful lord offers "protection" in return for "service"
  3. 4. An organization of priests in Spain that punished anyone suspected of secretly practicing their old religion instead of Roman Catholicism.
  4. 5. lesser lords who pledged their service and loyalty to a greater lord
  5. 6. struggle between England and France in the 14th–15th century over many disputes, including the succession to the French crown.
  6. 10. lord's estate
  7. 12. Germanic-speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century
  8. 14. a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites
  9. 16. peasants on a manor
  10. 17. the cornerstone of English law that declared that the king and government were bound by the same laws as other citizens.
  11. 20. people from Germanic tribes who migrated to Great Britain from continental Europe from 450-1066