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- 4. government run by religious leaders
- 6. in the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime
- 8. a person who provides financial support for the arts
- 9. art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid and then uses the plate to make multiple prints
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- 1. assembly or legislature
- 2. a region that included parts of present-day northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands; was an important industrial and financial center of northern Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- 3. idealistic or visionary, usually used to describe a perfect society
- 5. an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics
- 7. Erasmus (c.1466–1536) was a Dutch priest, writer, and scholar who promoted humanism. He wrote texts on various subjects and produced a new Greek edition of the Christian Bible. He also called for a translation of the Bible into the vernacular, or everyday language, to help spread learning, ideas, and education. He also wanted to reform Church corruption.
- 10. Swiss city-state that became a Calvinist theocracy in the 1500s; today a major city in Switzerland