Across
- 1. Renaissance writers wrote about daily life and encouraged people to improve themselves, be __________, and experience life to the fullest.
- 3. Other Europeans visited Italy and _________, started to imitate its culture and ways of life.
- 4. War, __________ , and hunger spread across the continent, but by the early 1400s, parts of Europe had begun to recover.
- 6. Italy's ___________ location made it an important trading stop during the period and money from trade and contact with other cultures helped Italy recover from the Dark Ages before other parts of Europe.
- 8. Writers started to use _________ languages instead of just Latin and Greek, which the average person could not understand.
- 9. By the time of the English Renaissance in the 17th century, the continent of Europe had been _________ changed.
- 10. The people of Italy moved away from the religious philosophies of the Middle Ages and developed a new way of thinking known as "__________"
- 11. As Italy became a center of art and learning ,its people began to rediscover the ________ of ancient Greek and Roman artists and thinkers.
Down
- 2. The Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci painted his famous Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, works known for their realism and emotional _________.
- 5. It was the beginning of what historians call the Renaissance-a word meaning "__________"- and Italy is where it started.
- 7. In this way, the Renaissance slowly spread north to the rest of Europe, __________ reaching France, Germany, and Poland.