| A | B |
| Usury | lending money at high interest rates |
| Letters of credit | promise to pay money borrowed |
| Absolute rule | ruler maintains all power |
| Renaissance | Rebirth or Revival of art and literature |
| Humanism | system of thought focusing on the human |
| Sonnets | poem of fourteen lines using any rhyme schemes |
| Gutenberg Bible | earliest book to be printed using movable type |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Painted Mona Lisa and Last Supper |
| Michelangelo | Sculpted David and the painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
| Petrach | Wrote Sonnets and Humanist Scholar |
| Machiavelli | Wrote the Prince |
| Erasmus | The Praise of Folly |
| Sir Thomas Moore | Utopia |
| Johan Gutenberg | Created the movable type printing press |
| Medieval Art & Literature | Focused on the Church and Salvation |
| Renaissance Art & Literature | focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with christianity |