Renaissance Crossword

2. a network of ancient trade routes, primarily land-based but also including sea routes, that connected China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.
6. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
7. an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
8. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
9. an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
10. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan
12. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press

1. a powerful and influential Italian family known for their role in the Renaissance.
3. relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.
4. the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.
5. 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.
11. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.