| A | B |
|---|
| 1453 AD | Year Ottoman Turks took over Byzantine Empire |
| Black Death | Epidemic in Europe in 1300's 1/3 population died |
| Machiavelli | Wrote "Prince" |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Mono Lisa and Last Supper |
| Michelangelo | Sculpted "David" and La Pieta ceiling |
| Petrarch | Father of Renaissance humanism, sonnets |
| Humanism | focused on human potential (history, literature, and philosophy became popular) |
| Gutenberg | Printing press with moeveable type, Gutenberg Bible |
| Erasmus | Wrote "Praise of Folly" |
| Sir Thomas More | wrote "Utopia" |
| Raphael | Painted "School of Athens" |
| William Shakespeare | Greatest English writer, famous tragedies "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 476 AD | Fall of Rome |
