Renaissance

4. Marco Polo's book of his travels that introduced Europeans to China and Central Asia
5. a network of routes used by traders for more than 1,500 years
6. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
8. Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals (from 1494 to 1512 and from 1527 to 1530
9. Influential architect and poet
12. From french word rebirth

1. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
2. Become more interested in worldly ideas and events
3. A way of showing people and things they appear at different distances
7. relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or ideals.
10. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
11. Developed a printing press that used movable metal types