Renaissance and Reformation Vocabulary Quiz

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

• patron

• Roman

• sacred

• theocracy

A person could give the Catholic Church a certain amount of money and their sin would be forgiven.

• relic

• indulgence

• Communism

• Constantinople

Non religious.

• relic

• status quo

• secular

• feudalism

The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.

• depression

• Middle Ages

• secular

• expression

An object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental, or religious interest.

• WW1

• corruption

• relic

• Germanic

The existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues.

• aqueducts

• status quo

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• reform

Connected with God or dedicated to a religious purpose. Religious rather than secular.

• sacred

• secular

• Capitalism

• Renaissance

Make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.

• patron

• reform

• compare

• contrast

Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

• corruption

• eruption

• interruption

• Capitalism