Renaissance Vocabulary

1. A person attached to a lords land and required to give services to the lord
6. A great religious movement in the sixteenth century in Europe to reform the Catholic Church
8. A monarchy in which the monarch rules according to the constitution and laws of the nation
10. The rights of a citizen
11. The time period in European history from about 500 CE to 1450 CE
12. People who belonged to the Christian congregations that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the reformation
13. A system or mode of thought in which human interests predominate

2. The economic and social system of the medieval Europe where lords received land from the ruler and serfs worked the land for the lord
3. A government that is controlled by the people who live under it
4. A time of great revival, or re-birth, of art literature, and learning in Europe from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth century, marking the transition from medieval ages to modern times
5. A German religious reformer
7. A country without a monarch
9. Rule by a sovereign with unlimited power, one who is above the law