Renaissance crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. someone who provides support, encouragement, or financial assistance to a person, organization, or cause
  2. 5. the sun was at the center of the solar system and the planet moved around the sun, including the earth
  3. 7. highly influential Italian artist and architect
  4. 9. a Venetian merchant and explorer known for his travels to China in the 13th century
  5. 10. way of relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation/its culture
  6. 11. a powerful and influential banking family from Florence, Italy, who rose to prominence during the Renaissance
  7. 12. not having any connection to or affiliation with religion
Down
  1. 1. a person's particular viewpoint or outlook on something
  2. 2. way of thinking/living that emphasizes human interests,values,and dignity
  3. 3. a German inventor who developed the printing press with movable type in the 1400s
  4. 6. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
  5. 8. a trading route dating back to the second century B.C. By the fourteenth century A.D.