renaissance

2. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
3. "classical mythology"
9. The Creation of Adam
11. a period of European history, roughly spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, characterized by a "rebirth" of interest in classical antiquity, particularly in art, literature, and philosophy
12. a network of ancient trade routes connecting the Eastern and Western worlds, primarily between China and the Mediterranean region

1. arguably the most famous Western traveler to have journeyed on the Silk Road
4. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
5. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
6. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press
7. a powerful Italian banking dynasty that rose to prominence in Florence during the Italian Renaissance, wielding considerable political and economic influence from the 14th to 18th centuries
8. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
10. the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.