Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century
- 2 Across
- English writer of satirical novels
- 4 Across
- A wild and exciting undertaking
- 5 Across
- In Christianity, ___ collectively
- 7 Across
- Florentine sculptor and painter and architect
- 8 Across
- An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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- Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
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- Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings
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- A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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- A way of regarding situations or topics etc
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- A characteristic language of a particular group
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- The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
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- An agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain
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- A legislative assembly in certain countries
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- After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
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- Open rebellion against constituted authority
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