Renaissance

4. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
5. Sun-centered, theory of the universe
7. An influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter. Painted the Sistine Chapel.
9. A merchant who left Venice in hopes to meet Kublai Khan and wrote a book about his travels
10. Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.
11. God's bankers
12. Beginning to value human efforts outside religion

1. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances
2. Belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
3. He developed the moveable printing press
6. The rebirth in interest in culture
8. A trade route that the mongols protected that made it easier and cheaper for caravans to carry goods between China and the Middle East