The Renaissance

4. encouraged Europeans to question the role of the Roman Catholic church
8. Renaissance started here
10. The most famous playwright of all time
13. a fervent period
14. The Renaissance movement had died out
15. Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer used telescope to describe the Jupiter's moon.
16. A powerful family that ruled Florence for more than 60 years

1. Is credited with bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and modern-day civilization.
2. Translator of the New Testament into Greek. credited with bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and modern-day civilization.
3. Italian painter and architect
5. The era is often branded as a time of war, ignorance, famine and pandemics such as the Black Death
6. Italian painter, architect, inventor; painted “The Mona Lisa”
7. Made a scientific argument for the concept of a heliocentric solar system.
9. French philosopher and mathematician regarded as the father of modern philosophy.
11. Italian sculptor celebrated for lifelike sculptures
12. Europeans took to the seas to learn more about the world around them