Hint
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Year
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Answer
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Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope
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1500
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Queen of Castile from 1474 until she died in 1504
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1504
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Queen Isabella of Castille
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The explorer who opened the door to the Americas
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1506
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Christopher Columbus
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The explorer after whom the Americas are named
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1512
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Amerigo Vespucci
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King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516
|
1516
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Ferdinand of Aragon
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The Flemish painter who did 'Garden of Earthly Delights'
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1516
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Painter of the Mona Lisa
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1519
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Leonardo da Vinci
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High Renaissance painter of The School of Athens
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1520
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Raphael
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The leader of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest
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1520
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Montezuma II
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Explorer who first circumnavigated the Earth
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1521
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portugese explorer who opened up sea route to India
|
1524
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Vasco da Gama
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The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly
|
1526
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Erasmus
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Italian diplomat best known for his political treatise The Prince
|
1526
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Germany's great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker
|
1528
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Albrecht Dürer
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The author of Utopia
|
1535
|
Thomas More
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The beheaded wife of Henry VIII
|
1536
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Anne Boleyn
|
|
1536
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Catherine of Aragon
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The 3rd wife of King Henry VIII
|
1536
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Queen Jane Seymour
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The Spaniard who conquered the Incas
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1541
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Francisco Pizarro
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Astronomer who said that the sun is the center of our solar system
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1543
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Nicolas Copernicus
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German monk who started Protestant Reformation
|
1546
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Martin Luther
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The Spaniard who took Mexico from the Aztecs
|
1547
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Hernan Cortes
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Master sculptor of The David
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1564
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Michelangelo
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French physician who made creepy predictions
|
1566
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Nostradamus
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Longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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1566
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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Renaissance Venetian master who painted Venus of Urbino
|
1576
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Titian
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The first czar of Russia from 1547 to 1584
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1584
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Ivan the Terrible
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The pope who changed the calendar in 1582
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1585
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Pope Gregory XIII
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The Flemish map maker whose 1569 map we all recognize
|
1594
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Gerardus Mercator
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The English mariner who circumnavigated the globe
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1596
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Francis Drake
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