The Renaissance

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
r i n c e
The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
2.
b l
Having a substance added to increase effectiveness
3.
c c k e
4.
f o
What we eat to get energy and grow
5.
p o l
6.
g l o
Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
7.
e t
Country with pyramids and the Nile
8.
c p e c s
Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center
9.
r a
An inhabitant of the ancient ___ Empire
10.
q u r n
A quarter of the circumference of a circle
11.
c p s
Navigational instrument for finding directions
12.
a r a
Continent with the Sahara desert
13.
a a
14.
p u g a
A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula
15.
e o p
Continent that includes France and Italy
16.
g r e
17.
f h o
18.
r a p
19.
r b r d
20.
m c a e a n
21.
i a
Boot-shaped country in Europe famous for pasta
22.
l e o n d d v
23.
c t o i
A member of a ___ church
24.
c a
Country in Asia with the Great Wall