Across
- 4. someone who provides support, encouragement, or financial assistance to a person, organization, or cause
- 5. the sun was at the center of the solar system and the planet moved around the sun, including the earth
- 7. highly influential Italian artist and architect
- 9. a Venetian merchant and explorer known for his travels to China in the 13th century
- 10. way of relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation/its culture
- 11. a powerful and influential banking family from Florence, Italy, who rose to prominence during the Renaissance
- 12. not having any connection to or affiliation with religion
Down
- 1. a person's particular viewpoint or outlook on something
- 2. way of thinking/living that emphasizes human interests,values,and dignity
- 3. a German inventor who developed the printing press with movable type in the 1400s
- 6. a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages
- 8. a trading route dating back to the second century B.C. By the fourteenth century A.D.