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| Primary Source | original materials that have not been altered or distorted in any way |
| Secondary Sources | documents written after an event has occurred, |
| Incan Empire | largest empire in pre-Columbian America. |
| Aztec Empire | These city-states ruled the area in and around the Valley of Mexico until they were defeated by the Spanish |
| Renaissance | a cultural movement known as rebirth |
| Humanism | a Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought. |
| Michelangelo | Famous sculptor and painter |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Painter and Inventor |
| Shakespeare | an English poet, playwright |
| Erasmus | a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. |
| Judaism | monotheistic religion of the Jewish people |
| Christianity | led by Jesus of Nazareth, proclaimed to be the Messiah |
| Islam | Followers are Muslims Believe in prophet Muhammed |
| Hinduism | influenced Indian society and culture and is still practiced in India today. |
| Buddhism | was founded by Siddhartha Gautama |
| Trans-Saharan | trade across the Sahara desert between Mediterranean countries and sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Silk Road | a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East |
