| A | B |
| indulgences | pardons for sins sold by catholic church |
| reform | improve by changing |
| Columbian exchange | distribution of people, trade, diseases, and ideas around the world |
| revolution | great and often violent change |
| Renaissance | age of 'rebirth' of art, math, sciences after Middle Ages |
| Leonardo DaVinci | artist famous for Mona Lisa & Last Supper |
| Michelangelo Bounarotti | artist famous for Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings& statue of David |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | English writer of Canterbury Tales |
| William Shakespeare | writer of plays - Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, and many more |
| Martin Luther | first monk to criticize the Catholic Church, started Protestant church movement |
| John Calvin | leader of Puritans seeking religious & political freedom |
| divine right of kings | royalty ruled by the will of God |
| constitution | basis of a country's law |
| Declaration of Independenc | American colonies reject British rule |
| French Revolution | French people rejected monarchy rule |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | emperor of new French Empire after French Revolution |
| Bartholomeu Dias | 1488, he reached tip of Africa |
| Vasco Da Gama | 1498, he sailed around Africa to India |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492, he claimed Central America for Spain |