Across
- 2. A time period known for the revival of classical art, architecture, literature, & learning
- 4. craftspeople who worked in the city
- 9. A state in which power is held by the people or their representatives
- 10. A social structure based on land, loyalty, & wealth
- 11. a plague that eroded people's faith in religion assisted in the fall of feudalism
- 12. peasants with few rights worked the land (were property of the land they worked)
- 14. Connected transportation routes that enabled material goods, ideas & knowledge to be passed from society to society. Stretched from Japan to Italy
- 16. The movement of people away from the countryside & into cities
Down
- 1. Interest charged on borrowed money
- 3. Commitment of loyalty to a superior Shown through oaths of loyalty
- 5. A time period that stretched from the fall of the Roman Empire to 14th century
- 6. High taxes from the hundred years war started this event
- 7. A religious war to free the holy land which brought Europeans in contact with Islamic civilization
- 8. Ranking people on importance and wealth
- 10. Pieces of land awarded to nobles by the King in exchange for loyalty
- 13. A form of government in which a few people have power
- 15. Professional organizations of crafts people