Renaissance
- Means Rebirth
- Italian Rinascimento, To be reborn
- It is the cultural rebirth in western Europe
- It is very influential movement from the 14th to 17th centuries
- Mainly started in Italy
Authors
- Shakespeare
- He wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.
- Known as the best writer ever in the english language and some argue the best author of all time.
- From Spain
Explorers
- Christopher colombus
- Sailed the atlantic in 1492 and discovered the west indies
- He was funded by spain even though he wasnt from spain
- Ponce de Leon
- Spanish conquistador around 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
Philosopher
- Sir Francis Bacon
- English
- Philosopher
- The New Atlantis
Sir Isaac Newton
- Philosopher
- Known for science revolution
Mathematics
- Galileo Galilei
- Known for improvement to telescope
- Italian
- Kepler
- Used both science and math to come up with first law of Planetary motion
- German
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