Across
- 4. A person who gives finacle or other support to a person, organization, causes, or activity.
- 5. Copernicus developed a heliocentric or sun-centered theory of the universe
- 7. Michangloe was an influential architect and poet as well as a sculptor in florence.
- 9. In the 1270’s, the merchant Marco Polo, his father and his uncle left Venice and traveled to china.
- 10. Relating to ancient Greek or Latin literature art or culture
- 11. In Florence the powerful Medici family controlled the government for many years.
- 12. During the renaissance most Europeans were still religious however they also began to value human efforts outside religion as a result people became more secular.
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- 1. A way of showing people and things as they appear at different distances.
- 2. belief in the worth of the individual and that reason is the path to knowledge
- 3. In the early 1450’s a german printer named johannes gutenberg developed a printing press that used movable type.
- 6. The new interest in the culture is called the renaissance from the french word “rebirth”
- 8. The Mongols protected trade along the silk road. This made it easier and cheaper to carry goods between China and the Middle East.