Renaissance Crossword

4. New phase learning and art after the Black Death
6. The Italian explorer who served Kublai Khan for 17 years
7. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
9. Powerful family who controlled the government in Florence for many years.
11. Focusing on worldly, temporal life rather than spiritual or religious matters, often involving a separation from religious institutions
12. A long trade route through China and the Middle East

1. Something traditional, authoritative, or adhering to established, long-standing standards, usually focusing on balance, simplicity, and form
2. Sun centered theory of the universe.
3. A person who supports someone or something usually by giving money.
5. Artist who painted the ceiling on the Sistine Chapel
8. A German printer who developed the printing press that a moveable metal type
10. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge