Renaissance

5. a decision reached by two or more people or groups
7. A priest He is credited with starting the Reformation
8. those who protested against the Roman Catholic Church
9. a religious order created to serve the pope and the church
10. painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, engineer, town planner, and mapmaker
14. wrote poems most famous for his plays
15. to change or influence

1. referring to the cultures of ancient Greece or Rome
2. designed buildings, wrote poetry, carved sculptures, and did paintings
3. a way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human abilities and actions
4. a reform movement against the Roman Catholic Church
6. a blend of humanist and religious ideas
11. German who developed a printing press that used movable type
12. the sharing of power between local governments and a strong central government
13. means rebirth and refers to the period that followed Europe’s Middle Ages