Across
- 3. city's wealthiest family
- 8. wars in the Middle East
- 10. center of the old Roman Empire where the Renaissance began
- 11. left Venice with his father and uncle and traveled to China
- 12. paid soldiers
- 13. the French word for Renaissance
Down
- 1. people of Venice
- 2. Italian city-states began as what
- 4. ancient Greek and Roman writings
- 5. plague that went through Europe in the 1340s
- 6. narrow waterways
- 7. state in Italy where the Renaissance began
- 8. Florence became wealthy by making what
- 9. in the Middle Ages in Europe, Italy was broken up as a collection of what