| A | B |
| Columbian exchange | distribution of people, trade, diseases, and ideas around the world |
| 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 |
| 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 |