The Renaissance (items and people)

1. A bitter sweet bean that is found in large, cucumber shaped, pods.
4. A unit of measurement weighing about 14 pounds (lbs).
7. The inventor of the microscope. He is known as the "Father of Microbiology".
8. A word describing a perfect place; also the name of Sir Thomas More's book.
10. A spice mainly found in the New World (In Aztec territory).
12. A bloody sporting fight between a wounded bear and many dogs enclosed in a pen. The animals are forced to fight.
14. A famous sculptor and artist from Florence Italy. Supported by the powerful Medici family.
16. The Father of Reformation. Nailed 95 Theses on the Castle Church door.
17. A sweet smelling cosmetic that women usually wear.

1. A person who came up with the idea of Heliocentric.
2. A magnetic article of sea faring members; always faces North.
3. A coin worth 10 shillings or 120 pence.
5. A man who proposed the law of Universal Gravity.
6. The Church's court in which cases dealing with walking away from Catholicism and from God. Many were tortured in the inquisitions.
9. A great Queen in England. She was unmarried and had killed the Earl of Essex for attempted murder.
11. A vegetable found overseas in the Incan territory.
13. A writer of plays in England. Famous for Romeo and Juliet.
15. A family that supported Michelangelo and his paintings/ sculptures