Renaissance Vocabulary

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