| A | B |
|---|
| Gutenburg | inventor of the printing press |
| Machiavelli | wrote "The Prince" |
| Cortez | conquered the Aztecs of Mexico |
| Elizabeth | queen who knighted Francis Drake for his success as a sea captain |
| Martin Luther | leader of the Protestant reformation |
| Prince Henry | created a school of navigation and sailing |
| John Calvin | Protestant leader who emphasized predestination |
| Bloody Mary | executed many protestants in England |
| Medici | patrons of the arts in Florence, Italy |
| Da Vinci | painted the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa |
| Michelangelo | painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David |
| Dias | First Portugues explorer to round the tip of Africa |
| Gothic Architecture | flying buttress, pointed arch, and stained glass |
| Henry VIII | strong English leader who is most well known for his 6 wives |
| reformation | to make better by removing faults |
| renaissance | re-birth |
| Shakespeare | author of plays and sonnets |
| Counter Reformation | Catholic Church response to problems within the church |
| Thomas Beckett | killed by the men of King Henry |
| Coronado | Spanish explorer of the Southwest United States |
| Simony | the practice of buying and selling of church offices |
| Spanish Inquisition | the attack by the Catholic church upon non-Catholics |
| Protestants | those supporters of Luther who protested what the Catholic church was doing |
| Treaty of Westphalia | this ended the Thirty Years war in Germany |
| Magellan | credited with circumnavigating the globe |
| the Invinicible Armada | fleeet of 130 ships defeated by the English |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | famous English poet that wrote "A Knight's Tale" |
| Magellan | explorer responsible for the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer responsible for claiming the St. Lawrence River and the area of Quebec for France |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer claimed a river in New York for the English as well as bay in the Arctic Circle, where he was marooned |
