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  1. 2. a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353.
  2. 4. A person who pays for or commissions works of art
  3. 7. A french theologian, pastor, and reformer in geneva during the protestant reformation.
  4. 10. Also called catholic reformation or catholic revival, in the history of christianity, the roman catholic efforts directed in the 16th and 17th centuries both against the protestant reformation and toward internal renewal.
  5. 11. An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
  6. 12. A 16th century movement for the reform of abuses in the roman catholic church ending in the establishment of the reformed and protestant churches.
  7. 14. A machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.
  8. 15. An italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the high renaissance.
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  1. 1. A german professor of theology, priest, author, composer, augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation.
  2. 3. A way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins.
  3. 5. The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country of region.
  4. 6. Written by martin luther, condemning the excesses and corruption of the roman catholic church
  5. 8. An italian polymath of the high renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
  6. 9. fervent period of european culture, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the middle ages.
  7. 13. A series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land.