Renaissance Crossword

3. A protected road for trading among the Mongols
4. A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
8. A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
11. A person interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.
12. The french word for “Rebirth”
13. He was a famous merchant and explorer.

1. Controlled the government for many years and funded many artists and others.
2. An influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor and painter.
5. Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature, art, or culture.
6. An emphasis on worldly concerns; belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge.
7. The famous printer who developed a printing press that used movable metal type.
9. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
10. Sun-centered theory of the universe.