| A | B |
|---|
| a group of people united by a common interest is a | guild |
| this is another word for a disease that spreads quickly | plague |
| chivalry | code of behavior of a knight |
| these people worked the land owned by lords | serfs |
| knight | a trained warrior |
| manor | large estates owned by nobles |
| feudalism | system of organizing and governing society based on land and service |
| lord | a noble who controlled all activity on his manor |
| vassal | a noble who was given a fief in return for loyalty |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter" that gave nobles more rights-said that king must live by the law |
| Charlemagne | emperor of the Franks |
| monestaries | communities for monks who devoted lives to religion |
| nun | women who devote life to religion |
| monk | men who vowed to devote their lives to religion |
| cathedrals | large churches |
| saints | men or women thought to be very holy |
| Crusades | the battles between Christians and Muslims for the "holy land" |
| patron | person who pays to support the arts |
| Renaissance | rebirth of art, literature, and learning |
| humanism | interest in people's wants and values |
| Florence | city in italy where Renaissance began |
| Lorenzo di Medici | rich patron of the arts |
| Petrarch | poet who thought the world's secrets would be found in the classics of Greece and Rome |
| classics | literature from ancient Greece and Rome |
| Leonardo da Vinci | famous painter and inventor |
| Michelangelo | famous sculptor, painter, and architect |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | revealed teh heliocentric theory=sun center of Universe |
| indulgences | a pardon or fogiveness sold by the church |
| reform | a change |
| Reformation | a movement to change the church of Rome |
| Martin Luther | monk in Germany who began the Reformation (wrote 95 Theses) |
| Johannes Gutenberg | inventor of the printing press |
| Protestantism | Luther's religion after breaking from the church of Rome |
| King Henry VIII | started a new Protestant church=Church of England |
| Queen Elizabeth I | daughter of Henry VIII Renaissance flourished under her rule |
| William Shakespeare | playwright and poet |
| armada | fleet of war ships |
| heliocentric | sun centered universe |
| Issac Newton | English scientist who studied gravity |
| Galileo | Italian astronomer who proved heliocentric universe |
| caravel | new boat designed by Henry the Navigator |
| Bart Dias | Porteguese captain 1st to sail around southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | Sailed from Protugal, around Africa, to Asia |
| Ferdinand Magellan | From Spain-sailed around the world |
