Crossword Vocab #9 - Learning Contract

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  1. 2. A wealthy person who had supported artists, writers, or scholars with money.
  2. 4. Describing the perfect or ideal society which isn’t reality.
  3. 8. A person who is a peasant and would work on the lord’s land and would not be able to leave.
  4. 10. A nomadic people from Central Asia which created a vast empire under leaders like Genghis Khan.
  5. 12. A document signed in 1215 that would limit the English king’s power and give rights to the nobles.
  6. 13. A nomadic group from Eastern Europe who had invaded parts of Europe and would later settle in Hungary.
  7. 14. A type of person who pledges loyalty and military service to a higher lord for exchange of land.
  8. 15. A political, social, and economical system where landowners gave land to vassals in return for their loyalty and service.
  9. 16. A large estate owned by a lord which would include farms, villages, and the people who lived there.
  10. 18. A specific legal system based on tradition, court decisions, and customs instead of very meticulous written laws.
  11. 20. Being focused on worldly (non-religious) matters instead of spiritual ones.
  12. 22. A certain group from Northern Europe who had invaded the Roman Empire and eventually had shaped the entire medieval Europe.
  13. 24. A very long war between England and France over land and royal claims (1337–1453).
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  1. 1. A Catholic court in Spain used to find and punish people who had practiced other religions.
  2. 3. A period of a restarted interest in art, learning, and classical ideas, starting in Italy.
  3. 5. Belief in human potential, education, and achievements sparked by the Renaissance.
  4. 6. The practice of charging an interest on loans, once considered sinful by the Church.
  5. 7. An extremely deadly plague that spread through Europe in the 1300s and killed millions.
  6. 9. A powerful Germanic tribe that formed a strong kingdom in Western Europe and was ruled by Charlemagne.
  7. 11. Brutal religious wars where European Christians tried to retake the Holy Land from Muslims that had taken it.
  8. 17. A group of Germanic tribes who settled in England after the fall of the Roman Empire.
  9. 19. Is related to the Middle Ages and was the time between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance.
  10. 21. This is the knight’s code of honor that includes character traits such as bravery, loyalty, and protecting the weak and others.
  11. 23. A piece of land given by a lord to a vassal for his service to the land.