Renaissance Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A person who gives financial or other support to a person, cause, or activity.
  2. 5. A route for exporting goods such as silk, spices, and precious metals.
  3. 7. Relating of the ancient Greek and Roman
  4. 9. The greatest English playwright of his time.
  5. 11. An influential architect and poet; painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  6. 12. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
  7. 13. A traveler that Kublai sent to go on fact-finding trips all over China.
  8. 14. Becoming more interested in worldly ideas and events.
Down
  1. 1. A German printer who developed a movable metal type printing press.
  2. 3. New interest in culture in learning and arts. From the French word for “rebirth.”
  3. 4. Sun-centered, theory of the universe.
  4. 6. A famous Renaissance artist known for the “Mona Lisa”
  5. 8. Known as “God’s Bankers”.
  6. 10. A new way of understanding the world, based on ancient Greek and Rome.