The Renaissance

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars (7)
  2. 8. A native or inhabitant of ___ (plural) (7)
  3. 9. The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world (11)
  4. 11. Kind and easy to get along with (8)
  5. 12. A seaport in northwestern Italy (5)
  6. 13. A large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman (7)
  7. 14. Navigational instrument for finding directions (7)
  8. 16. The state capital of Ohio (8)

Down

  1. 1. The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella (9)
  2. 3. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element (4)
  3. 4. A unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when (5)
  4. 5. The act of ___ something (9)
  5. 6. The queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of (8)
  6. 7. An island in the West Indies (10)
  7. 10. A quarter of the circumference of a circle (8)
  8. 15. A vessel that carries passengers or freight (plural) (5)