The Renaissance

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Having a substance added to increase effectiveness (5)
  2. 4. What we eat to get energy and grow (4)
  3. 5. A member of a ___ church (8)
  4. 11. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars (7)
  5. 12. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world (11)
  6. 14. Country with pyramids and the Nile (5)
  7. 15. A quarter of the circumference of a circle (8)
  8. 16. Country in Asia with the Great Wall (5)

Down

  1. 1. Country in Asia with the Taj Mahal (5)
  2. 3. Boot-shaped country in Europe famous for pasta (5)
  3. 6. Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (10)
  4. 7. Navigational instrument for finding directions (7)
  5. 8. Continent that includes France and Italy (6)
  6. 9. A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula (8)
  7. 10. The force of workers available (3)
  8. 13. Continent with the Sahara desert (6)