Renaissance Crossword

4. The french word for “rebirth”
6. A merchant who wrote a book about his life in china
7. A way of showing people and things as they appear
9. Controlled the government for several years, and were famous patrons of the arts
11. Interested in worldly ideas and events, not just religious ones.
12. An ancient, interconnected network of land and sea trade routes

1. something traditional,long-established, or based on the art, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
2. Having or relating to the sun as the center of the solar system
3. A person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event
5. A famous artist who painted the sistine chapel
8. Developed a printing press that used a metal moveable type
10. An emphasis on worldly concerns: belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge