Renaissance crossword puzzle

4. A person who gives finacle or other support to a person, organization, causes, or activity.
5. Copernicus developed a heliocentric or sun-centered theory of the universe
7. Michangloe was an influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor in florence.
9. In the 1270’s, the merchant Marco Polo, his father and his uncle left Venice and traveled to china.
10. Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature art or culture
11. In Florence the powerful Medici family controlled the government for many years.
12. During the renaissance most Europeans were still religious however they also began to value human efforts outside religion as a result people became more secular.

1. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
2. belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
3. In the early 1450’s a german printer named johannes gutenberg developed a printing press that used movable type.
6. The new interest in the culture is called the renaissance from the french word “rebirth”
8. The Mongols protected trade along the silk road. This made it easier and cheaper to carry goods between China and the Middle East.