Renaissance
- "re-birth"
- Italian: to be reborn
- Cultural rebirth in Western Europe
- Very influential movement from the 14th-17th centuries
- Mainly started in Italy
Authors
- Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, known as the best writer ever in the English language and some argue that he was the best author of all time
- Miguel Cervantes: wrote Don Quixote from Spain
Explorers
- Christopher Columbus: sailed from Atlantic in 1492, discovered the West Indies, funded by Spain even though he wasn't from Spain
- Pance de Leon: went around the current day Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth
- Magelan: Portugese, the first to go all the way around the world
- De Gama: Portugese, explored in the Cape of Good Hope
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