European Changes Web Quest Words

European Changes Web Quest Words
1.Charlemagne - Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

2.Fief - a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.

3.Vassal - a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military serviceor its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.


4.Serf - a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferredwith it from one owner to another.

5.Canon law - the body of codified ecclesiastical law, esp. of the Roman Catholic Church as promulgated in ecclesiastical councils and bythe pope.

6.Thomas Aquinas - a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.

7.Magna Carta - any fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties.


8.Estates General - assembly of the estates of all France

9.Great Schisim - a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church

10.Hundred Years War - the series of wars between England and France,

11.Renaissance - the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe

12.Michelangelo - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

13.Leonardo Da Vinci - Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, and scientist.

14.The Divine Comedy - An epic poem written by Dante in the early fourteenth century, describing the author's journey through the afterlife

15.Cosmo De Medici - was the first of the Medici political dynasty

16.Donatello - Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue

17.Raphael - Italian painter whose works, including religious subjects, portraits, and frescoes, exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance.

18.indulgence - a partial remission of the temporal punishment, esp. purgatorial atonement

19.usury - the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.


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21.Lutheran Church -

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23.Inquisition -

24.Jesuits -

25.Martin Luther -

26.John Calvin -

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30.Diet of Worms -

31.John Knox -

32.conquistador -

33.Columbian Exchange -

34.mercantilism -

35.triangular trade -

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37.Columbus -

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40.Magellan -

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47.Jamestown -

48.De Soto -