Leonardo Di Vinci - Known as a true Renaissance man,one of the most prolific inventors in history painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper., Indulgences - Churches used to sell forgiveness through these, King Henry VIII​ - known for having six different wives and for separating the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church., Martin Luther - caused the Reformation supported it with his writing The 95 Tesis, Medici Family - Powerful banking family, Johannes Gutenberg - Invented the Printing Press, Michelangelo - Artist, architect, and sculptor famous for his paintings in the Sistine Chapel., Renaissance Art - Colors, human figures, increased detail, William Shakespeare - He wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth, Italy - Where the Renaissance began , Cartier - French explorer searching for northwest passage, Machiavelli - Wrote the Book,  The Prince, Da Gama - Portugese explorer looking for a water route to Asia, Magellan - Portugese explorer credited as first to sail around the world, Sir Thomas More - Wrote about Utopias, The Mona Lisa, Humanism - Focused on Human feelings, Montesquieu - Believed government should be divided into branches, Erasmus - Wanted the bible translated into multiple languages, Columbus - Italian explorer who sailed for another country looking for a water route to Asia, Henry Hudson - An English explorer who sailed for another country looking for a northwest passage, Renaissance Currency - Each major city had its own money and the value of the coins could change on a regular basis., Juan Ponce De Leon and Francisco Pizzaro - Spanish explorer who searched for gold for his home country, John Cabot - Italian explorer who sailed for another country looking for a northwest passage, Marco Polo - Stories are slightly unbelievable- mixture of fact and myth, Nicolas Copernicus - Proposed Heliocentric model, Galileo - Improved the telescope, Isaac Newton - Discovered gravity, Johannes Kepler - Discovered planets revolve in elliptical pattern, SIr Francis Bacon - Introduced the Scientific Methos,

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