| A | B |
| Leonardo da Vinci | created the Mona Lisa |
| Erasmus | author of In Praise of Folly |
| Martin Luther | believed that the bible was the sole authority |
| John Calvin | believed in predestination |
| Henry VIII | divorced his wife and left the Catholic church |
| St. Ignatius of Loyola | society of Jesus |
| Johannes Gutenberg | creator of the printing press |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first to circumnavigate the world |
| Francis Drake | second to circumnavigate the world |
| Nicolai Copernicus | creator of the heliocentric theory |
| Sir Issac Newton | created laws of motion and gravity |
| Charles I | leader of the cavaliers during the English Civil War |
| Charles II | king during the English restoration |
| Oliver Cromwell | leader of the roundheads during the English Civil War |
| Peter the Great | westernized Russia |
| Frederick the Great | militarized Prussia |
| Louis XIV | built the palace of Versailles |
| Louis XVI | leader during the French Revolution |
| William Harvey | studied the circulation of blood in the body |
| Maximillain Robespierre | leader during the reign of terror |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | known as a great composer |
| William and Mary | leaders during the glorious revolution |
| Baron Montesquieu | believed in sepaation of powers |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | government is a contract between the rulers and its people |
| Voltaire | believed in a separation of church and state |
| John Locke | the people are sovereign |