Across
- 4. Italian poet who was a model of humanism as a vocation
- 7. a document that reduced the time a sinner would spend in purgatory
- 8. first name of a 'maiden' who defeated an English army in the Hundred Years War
- 9. an Italian city, an island, run by a Great Council
- 10. a double helix, microscopic, that contains our biological code
- 11. a league of mainly north German cities formed for mutual protection and trade
- 12. moments in Big History when a new order of complexity appears
- 14. a literary and linguistic movement embodied by renaissance thinkers
Down
- 1. the cause of the Black Death in 1346-1353
- 2. he besieged Constantinople in 1453 and captured it
- 3. painter of The Birth of Venus
- 5. a period in European history that revived the Greco-Roman past and embraced change
- 6. a period when there were multiple popes and great confusion in the Catholic church
- 8. a peasants rebellion in 1381 that revealed discontent in the countryside during the Hundred Years War
- 13. a vocal critic of the Papacy in the 14th century, from England
