Across
- 2. Inventor who introduced movable-type printing to Europe
- 3. Period of rebirth in culture, learning, and the arts
- 5. System in which wealthy families funded artists and scholars
- 7. Religious movement partly fueled by Renaissance ideas
- 11. Networks that helped transfer Islamic knowledge back to Europe
- 15. Writing in everyday language instead of Latin
- 16. Italian city-state widely viewed as the birthplace of the Renaissance
- 18. Economic activity that helped Italian merchants gain wealth and power
- 19. Movement emphasizing individual achievement and classical learning
- 21. Book by Thomas More describing an ideal society
- 22. Church practices criticized by early reformers
- 23. Artist who sculpted David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
- 24. Artist known for The School of Athens
- 26. Innovation that spread ideas rapidly across Europe
- 28. Playwright whose works reflect humanist ideas
Down
- 1. Artistic technique that gives the illusion of depth
- 4. Disaster that weakened feudalism and helped spark social change
- 6. Empire whose 1453 conquest of Constantinople pushed Greek scholars westward
- 8. Venetian traveler whose writings increased European curiosity about Asia
- 9. Period in England marked by cultural flowering under Queen Elizabeth I
- 10. Renaissance figure known for art, science, and invention
- 12. Focus on worldly subjects rather than the spiritual
- 13. Author of The Prince, a realistic guide to ruling
- 14. Revival of Greek and Roman ideas in art and learning
- 17. Independent political units that helped spark the Renaissance
- 20. Scholars who studied grammar, rhetoric, history, and poetry in the classical style
- 25. Belief contrary to Church teachings, often punished
- 27. Influential banking family who dominated Florence’s politics and culture