| A | B |
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| Battle of Bosworth Field | Ended the Wars of the Roses |
| Marco Polo | The Venetian trader that traveled to the Orient and explored the Far East |
| Ponce de Leon | discovered Florida |
| Magna Carta | Established many precedents of freedom, such as trial by jury and habeas corpus |
| Reconquista | drove the Moors out of Spain |
| October 31, 1517 | The date the 95 Theses was posted |
| Alfred | The first great King of England |
| Simon de Montfort | called the first meeting of Parliament in England |
| Henry the 1st of England | known for his "Charter of Liberties" |
| Wartburg Castle | Where Luther hid as Knight George |
| Wittenberg | site of Luther's 95 Theses which sparked the Reformation |
| Canute | the great Danish ruler of England who also ruled Denmark and Norway |
| Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples | translated the Vulgate into French |
| the Moors (Muslims) | invaded Spain in A.d. 711 and made Cordovea their capital |
| "A Mighty Fortress is our God" | Martin Luther's famous hymn |
| Joan of Arc | a French girl who won several minor battles in the Hundred Years' War |
| 1215 | the year King John signed the Magna Carta |
| Pedro Cabral | discovered Brazil |
| Battle of Hastings | not a victory for the English in the Hundred Years' War |
| scops | wondering poets who told epic tales |
| Model Parliament | called for by Edward 1 |
| Menno Simons | Anabaptist preacher |
| John Cabot | explored for England |
| Elanor of Aquitaine | only woman to be both Queen of England and Queen of France |
| 1066 | The year William the conqueror defeated Harold Goodwin of England |
| Incas | most important Indian civilization in South America |
| Estates-General | French version of Parliament |
| Hugh Capet | first great king of France |
| William Tyndale | first printed English version of the New Testament |
| Domesday Book | William's record of the census |
| indulgences | excused a person from penance or purgatory |
| Lancaster & York | The Wars of Roses were fought between these two houses of England |
| Hernando Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
| Vasco de Balboa | discovered the Pacific Ocean |
| John Calvin | wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion" |
| Ulrich Zwingli | Protestant leader in Zurich |
| Desiderius Erasmus | scholar of the Northern Renaissance that published the first printed edition of the Greek New Testament |
| Jacques Cartier | discovered the St. Lawrence River |
| Aztec | The most powerful New World Civilization at the beginning of the Age of Exploration |
| New goods and Oriental ideas | Why the Crusades brought about the Age of Exploration |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his crew circumnavigated the globe |
| John Calvin | Protestant reformer known for his work in Geneva |
| Line of Demarcation | divided control of the New World between Portugal and Spain |
| Henry II | Established the Plantagenet line of kings in England |
| Vasco de Gama | first European to reach the Far East by sea |
| Henriques | the first king of Portugal |
| Martin Luther | realized that man is saved by faith in Christ, not by works or man-made systems of grace |
| El Cid | national hero in Spain |
| Katharina von bora | Martin Luther's wife |
| Edit of Worms | declared Luther a heretic and oredered his works burned |
