The Renaissance

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Across
  1. 1. - 12544-1324 Italian trader, he traveled to China and later wrote about his trip. During his time in China he served as a government official in Kublai Khan's court
  2. 3. - the study of history, literature, public speaking, and art that led to a new way of thinking in Europe in the late 1300s
  3. 4. - a method of showing three-dimensional scenes on a flat surface so that it looks real
  4. 9. - 1475-1564 Italian renaissance artist, he designed buildings, wrote poetry, and created sculptures and created paintings
  5. 10. - 1452-1519 genius of the Renaissance, he was a painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, town planner, and mapmaker
  6. 11. - 1564-1616 English renaissance writer and playwright, he is considered by many to be the greatest English writer of all time
Down
  1. 2. - the period of "rebirth" and creativity that followed Europe's middle ages
  2. 5. - the combination of humanist and religious ideas
  3. 6. - 1400-1463 German painter, he developed a printing press that used a movable type
  4. 7. - 1469-1527 Italian writer and politician, he wrote The Prince in which he advised leaders on how to rule
  5. 8. - 1304-1375 Early Italian Renaissance scholar, he wrote about the importance of knowing history