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1. A way of showing people things as they appear at different distances.
4. A new way of understanding the world.
7. A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
9. Wealthy and powerful family of Italian bankers and merchants.
10. More interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.
11. Ancient trade route that linked China with the West.
12. Was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

2. New interest in culture.
3. Having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
5. Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who traveled through Asia along the Silk.
6. Was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.
8. Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.