Renaissance Vocabulary
Across
- 5. skilled craftworker
- 6. adverse or hostile reaction against change
- 7. a portion of crops or percentage of earnings paid to the church
- 11. the system of political organization during the Middle Ages
- 12. a person who adopts a system of thought that centres on humans and their values, capacities, and worth; concern with the interests, needs, and welfare of humans
- 13. a religious movement to change or reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in the establishment of some other Christian religions, such as the Lutheran church
- 16. travel completely around something, as in circumnavigating the globe
- 18. one who studies the truth and principles underlying human conduct and knowledge and nature of the universe
- 19. a politically independent city and the rural area or hinterland around it
- 21. peasants who worked the land for the lord and were not allowed to leave the manor without the lord's permission
- 23. relating to citizenship or civic affairs
- 26. certificates that reduced the time people would be punished for their sins after they died
- 27. a person who has learned a trade and joined a guild
- 28. a disease that spreads rapidly and affects many individuals at the same time
- 29. to spread information
- 30. a person who is willing to die for their beliefs
Down
- 1. the practice of charging interest when loaning money to someone
- 2. a crafty person who seeks and holds power by any means possible
- 3. official exclusion from the Catholic church
- 4. laws that controlled consumption or how people spent their money
- 8. adopting the culture and ideas of the western world
- 9. a social system in which status is ranked and power is concentrated in the higher ranks
- 10. a person who draws maps
- 14. the extension of power over a territory, including its resources and people
- 15. a type of prejudice
- 17. loyalty
- 20. the actions and attitudes of a state or country whose goal is to expand its power and territory
- 22. opposing church teachings
- 24. building and lands in which monks lived and carried out their religious duties
- 25. the language commonly spoken by the people who live in that region