Renaissance

4. vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea routes
5. Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years
8. sculpted the Pieta in Rome and the David in Florence, painted the Sistine Chapel's ceilings and even designed the dome for St. Peter's Basilica
9. famous for sponsorship of art and architecture
10. not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
12. the place that made the printing press
13. the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

1. relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals
2. a famous painter that also was a inventer
3. a wealthy or influential supporter of an artist or writ
6. a French word meaning “rebirth"
7. Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
11. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system