Renaissance ERA

3. - The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
5. - The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface.
9. - Rebirth of art and literature in the 14-15 century.
10. - A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
12. - Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

1. - Representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
2. - Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence.
4. - Reintroduced letterpress printing to Europe his movable-type printing press.
6. - Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.
7. - Italian merchant/explorer who traveled through the silk road
8. - A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
11. - Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.