Renaissance Crossword

3. state as a fact; assert strongly and publicly.
7. past and past participle of seek.
8. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
11. the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
13. a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth
14. outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
15. a study of the structure or internal workings of something.

1. the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.
2. a wealthy person who uses money to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism.
4. subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
5. the way Egyptians told stories back then
6. an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
9. voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.
10. he Protestant theological system of John Calvin and his successors, which develops Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone and emphasizes the grace of God and the doctrine of predestination
12. an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude