Re-Emergence of the West

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Across
  1. 4. this Islamic Empire proved a major threat to Eastern Europe throughout the Renaissance period to the 1600s
  2. 6. the Renaissance began in ______.
  3. 8. when this city fell, Greek scholars fled West, contributing to the Italian Renaissance
  4. 10. this clergyman is an early challenger of Church corruption as a part of the Northern Renaissance
  5. 12. literally means "rebirth"
  6. 13. this nation experiences a significant burst of nationalism upon unification...drives the Moors (Muslims) and Jews from Spain in 1492
  7. 14. the city of Italy that was the "birthplace of the Renaissance"
  8. 15. this nation begins to throw off Mongol rule in the late 1400s under the leadership of the Ivans
  9. 16. inventor of the Printing Press
Down
  1. 1. the technology of the Renaissance era that launched Europe into the modern age...increases literacy rates, books more affordable, available
  2. 2. the Florentine writer who wrote on the reality of politics of the period...often brutal and very "modern"
  3. 3. the guiding secular philosophy of Renaissance Italy
  4. 5. the Sistine Chapel was painted by this super famous Renaissance painter...and "Ninja Turtle"
  5. 7. the Last Supper and Mona Lisa were both painted by this Renaissance legend...and "Ninja Turtle"
  6. 9. the English play-write of the Northern Renaissance famous for writing in the vernacular (English)
  7. 11. this royal family becomes the most powerful in Europe as it controls the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and portions of Eastern Europe