Renaissance

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century (9)
  2. 4. English writer of satirical novels (7)
  3. 5. A wild and exciting undertaking (9)
  4. 7. In Christianity, ___ collectively (6)
  5. 8. Florentine sculptor and painter and architect (12)
  6. 11. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (7)
  7. 12. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it (11)
  8. 15. Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (10)
  9. 16. A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme (6)

Down

  1. 1. A way of regarding situations or topics etc (11)
  2. 3. A characteristic language of a particular group (10)
  3. 6. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world (11)
  4. 9. An agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain (8)
  5. 10. A legislative assembly in certain countries (10)
  6. 13. After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body (7)
  7. 14. Open rebellion against constituted authority (6)