Renaissance

3. Road The Mongols protected trade along this road
5. Sun centered
10. From the french word “rebirth”
11. A financial supporter of a person or cause, or regular customer of a business
12. Interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones

1. It describes something adhering to high standards, formal rules, or traditional methods rather than modern trends
2. Developed a printing press that used a moveable metal type.
4. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances
6. Controlled the government for many years
7. An influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter.
8. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
9. Polo A merchant in the 1270s