Renaissance World History

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Across
  1. 2. Inventor who introduced movable-type printing to Europe
  2. 3. Period of rebirth in culture, learning, and the arts
  3. 5. System in which wealthy families funded artists and scholars
  4. 7. Religious movement partly fueled by Renaissance ideas
  5. 11. Networks that helped transfer Islamic knowledge back to Europe
  6. 15. Writing in everyday language instead of Latin
  7. 16. Italian city-state widely viewed as the birthplace of the Renaissance
  8. 18. Economic activity that helped Italian merchants gain wealth and power
  9. 19. Movement emphasizing individual achievement and classical learning
  10. 21. Book by Thomas More describing an ideal society
  11. 22. Church practices criticized by early reformers
  12. 23. Artist who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
  13. 24. Artist known for The School of Athens
  14. 26. Innovation that spread ideas rapidly across Europe
  15. 28. Playwright whose works reflect humanist ideas
Down
  1. 1. Artistic technique that gives the illusion of depth
  2. 4. Disaster that weakened feudalism and helped spark social change
  3. 6. Empire whose 1453 conquest of Constantinople pushed Greek scholars westward
  4. 8. Venetian traveler whose writings increased European curiosity about Asia
  5. 9. Period in England marked by cultural flowering under Queen Elizabeth I
  6. 10. Renaissance figure known for art, science, and invention
  7. 12. Focus on worldly subjects rather than the spiritual
  8. 13. Author of The Prince, a realistic guide to ruling
  9. 14. Revival of Greek and Roman ideas in art and learning
  10. 17. Independent political units that helped spark the Renaissance
  11. 20. Scholars who studied grammar, rhetoric, history, and poetry in the classical style
  12. 25. Belief contrary to Church teachings, often punished
  13. 27. Influential banking family who dominated Florence’s politics and culture