| A | B |
|---|
| predestination | God has predetermined who would be saved |
| fresco | painting on wet plaster using water based paints |
| mercantilism | a belief that countries' power depended on its wealth |
| vernacular | the common language spoken in a particular region |
| sacraments | baptism, communion, confirmation, marriage, holy orders, last rites, and confessions |
| Renaissance | rebirth |
| secular | not pertaining to religion |
| absolutism | a system of government where the ruler holds total power |
| divine right | a belief held by absolute monarchs that they were chosen by God to rule a country |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | an imaginary line to divide the future exploration between Portugal and Spain |
| Da Gama | sailed around Africa to India |
| Columbus | sailed to the Caribbean Islands |
| Dias | sailed around the tip of Africa |
| Cortez | conquered the Aztecs |
| Dante | wrote the Divine Comedy |
| Chaucer | first to write in the English vernacular |
| Machiavelli | wrote The Prince about how to gain political power |
| Guttenberg | invented the printing press |
| Humanism | a movement that focused on the individual achievement and moved away from religion |
| Magellan | curcumnavigated the globe |
