Across The Centuries Chapter 12 Crossword
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1) a political and economic system in which large landholders or lords gave protection to people in return for their service to the landholder.2) money, land, servants, or any other valuable property given by a bride's family to her husband at marriage.3) The story of a befuddled old gentleman who thinks he is a medieval knight and who sets out to rid the world of evildoers.4) A person who financially supports scholars or artists.5) Trade, or the buying and selling of goods on a large scale.9) An English statesman, scholar, author, and a friend of Erasmus who lived from 1478 to 1535. He proposed that all men should be treated equally.14) a highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease.15) A book describing the rules of a society in which all men are equal and everyone works together to achieve happiness.17) A Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, diplomat, soldier and for five years, a captive of pirates.18) A renewal of classical Greek and Roman culture that spread through Europe between the 1300s and mid 1600s.20) The top of the social ladder. Some were descendants of medieval noble families, most were merchants and business people.22) Inventor of the movable type printing press.23) a doctrine or attitude that is primarily concerned with human beings and their values, capacities, and achievements. |
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6) Worldly, rather than religious, in nature.7) a person who has controversial opinions, especially one who publicly disagrees with the accepted beliefs of the Catholic Church.8) a strong central government ruled by a king or queen.10) The idea that each person should be free to develop his or her own goals.11) young French leader during the Hundred Year's War, who received messages from God to help Charles drive the English from France.12) A method of printing in which individual letters were pieced together in a frame and then inked.13) Successful artist known for his paintings of peasants.16) Dutch priest and 16th century humanist who wanted to reform the church. Believed everyone should be able to read the Bible.19) A poet, actor, and master playwright. Widely regarded as the most famous writer in history, this man is also credited with coining several thousand words and phrases that we use today.21) two of the first Renaissance humanists. They discovered letters written by Roman politicians and books written by Greek philosophers.24) A member of the lowest social class. They were often illiterate agricultural workers.25) A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in which supreme power lies in a body of elected officials.26) A method of printing in which letters were carved onto a wooden block and inked, then the ink was transferred onto paper. |
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