| A | B |
|---|
| Michaelangelo | Painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Renaissance | Means "rebirth". |
| Black death | Killed over half of Europe and was spread by rats and fleas. |
| Luther | Man who opposed the Catholic church and started the Reformation. |
| Columbus | He "discovered" America. |
| Magellan | First person to "circumnavigate" the world. |
| de Soto | Explorer who was killed by natives on the banks of the Mississippi. |
| Elizabeth I | Famous queen who gave England its' "Golden Age" |
| Shakespeare | Famous English playwrite who wrote greats such as "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet". |
| Jan van Eyck | Famous Flemish painter with a "girl's" name. |
| Copernicus | Proposed that the earth rotated around the sun. |
| Thomas More | He was beheaded by Henry VIII because he would not agree with the king. |
| Albrecht Durer | Famous German painter. |
| Nostradamus | People said that this "scientist" could predict the future. |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Created the famous "Mona Lisa" and the sculpture called "David". |
| Machiavelli | Wrote a famous book which told kings how they should act. |
| Galileo | Italian astronomer and mathematician who built some of the first telescopes. |
| Raphael | Italian artist who was famous for his painting, especially his "Madonnas" (pictures of Jesus and Mary). |
| Donatello | Italian artist who was most famous for his sculptures. |
| Charles V | He was a "fifth" and was called the "Holy Roman Emperor". |
| de Medici | Italian who was very powerful and supported many artists with money. |
| Henry VIII | The father of Elizabeth I and famous for beheading several of his wives. |
