The Renaissance (items and people)

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Across
  1. 3. Vegetable found overseas in the Incan territory.
  2. 4. A man who proposed the law of Universal Gravity.
  3. 8. A bloody sporting fight between a wounded bear and many dogs enclosed in a pen. The animals are forced to fight.
  4. 11. A coin worth 10 shillings or 120 pence.
  5. 12. A writer of plays in England. Famous for Romeo and Juliet.
  6. 13. The inventor of the microscope. He is known as the "Father of Microbiology".
  7. 15. A person who came up with the idea of Heliocentric.
  8. 16. Word describing a perfect place; also the name of Sir Thomas More's book.
Down
  1. 1. A bitter sweet bean that is found in large, cucumber shaped, pods.
  2. 2. The Father of Reformation. Nailed 95 Theses on the Castle Church door.
  3. 5. Sweet smelling cosmetic that women usually wear.
  4. 6. A magnetic article of sea faring members; always faces North.
  5. 7. A famous sculptor and artist from Florence Italy. Supported by the powerful Medici family.
  6. 9. A spice mainly found in the New World (In Aztec territory).
  7. 10. The Church's court in which cases dealing with walking away from Catholicism and from God. Many were tortured in the inquisitions.
  8. 12. A unit of measurement weighing about 14 pounds (lbs).
  9. 14. A great Queen in England. She was unmarried and had killed the Earl of Essex for attempted murder.