Renaissance
- "re-birth"
- italian: rinascimento, "to be reborn"
- very influential movement from the 14th to 17th centuries
- mainly started in italy
authors
- shakespeare
- wrote hamlet, romeo and juliet, and macbeth
- known as the best writer ever in the english language and some argue the best of all time
- Miguel de Cervantes
- wrote don quijote
- from spain
Explorers
- Christopher Columbus
- sailed the atlantic in 1492 and discovered the West Indies
- he was funded by spain even though he wasn't from Spain, he was from Italy
- Ponce de Leon
- spanish conquistador around the current day Florida
- looked for the fountain of youth
- Magellan
- Portuguese
- captaining the first circumnavigation expedition
- De Gama
- explored in the cape of good hope
- Portuguese
Artists
- Michelangelo
- artist
- painter
- italy
- statue of david
- Da Vinci
- artist
- painter
- Italy
- Mona Lisa
Philosophers
- Sir Francis Bacon
- english
- the new atlantis-the book
- Sir Isaac Newton
- known for science revolution
Mathematics
- Galileo Galilei
- known for improvement to the telescope
- italian
- Kepler
- used both science and math to come up with first law of planetary motion
- german
historical building during the Renaissance
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