Across
- 6. Crop grown in the "New World" and introduced to England by Sir Frances Drake
- 8. The number of years after Copernicus' time, when Galileo began furthering his work
- 10. The study of ancient literature, history, and moral philosophy in connection with the Renaissance
- 11. French poet who wrote epic stories, such as one about giants to spread his humanist ideas
- 13. The true genius of Elizabethan theater, whose works are still studied 400 years after his time (last name)
- 14. First name of the creator of the printing press
- 15. Invention by Galileo which allowed people to determine the temperature through the use of a colored liquid
- 16. Spanish explorer who introduced chocolate to Spain (last name)
- 18. Polish astronomer who famously theorized that the Earth revolves around the sun
- 19. "The Greek philosopher _______ had defined the universe back in the second century"
- 20. Famous Dutch Renaissance thinker who travelled across Europe, spreading his belief in humanism (last name)
Down
- 1. "Theater ______ of six to twelve men and women improvised commedia dell'arte through stock characters, slapstick humor, and clowning"
- 2. "But if poetry flourished in these years in England, drama was the focal point of the age"
- 3. French poet who mastered the 12 syllable alexandrine poem (full name)
- 4. Poem created by English poet, Edmund Spencer, which portrayed Queen Elizabeth
- 5. "During the middle ages, ________ was not widespread"
- 7. Queen of England during the second half of the sixteenth century who allowed literacy to prosper in England
- 9. Book created by Italian political philosopher, Niccolo Machiavelli
- 12. First major Elizabethan playwright (last name)
- 17. Name for a cunning schemer