Spain
Prince of Aragon and king of Spain
Ferdinand
Italian patron of the arts and grandson of Cosimo
Lorenzo de Medici
Russian tsar
Ivan the Great
united the houses of York and Lancaster
Henry Tudor
put Mali on the map for gold
Mansa Musa
ruler of Castile and queen of Spain
Isabella
Renaissance artist sponsored by Lorenzo de Medici
Sandro Botticelli
gentle native of the Caribbean Islands
Arawaks
posed for the Mona Lisa
Madonna Elisabetta
Dominican monk and Martyr
Savonarola
Dominican monk and leader of the Inquisition
Tomas de Torquemada
America named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
first Portuguese to round the tip of Africa
Dias
Italian painter, architect, etc who learned to write backwards
Leonardo da Vinci
founder of the Songhai empire
Askia Muhammad I
dreamed of an "Enterprise to the Indies"
Christopher Columbus
Called Pater Patriae or "Father of His Country"
Cosimo de Medici
Portuguese viceroy of India
Vasco de Gama
feeble king of England after the Hundred Years War
Henry VI
excommunicated Savonarola
likely the first land sighted by Columbus; means "Holy Savior"
architect of the Dome of Florence
Brunelleschi
princess of the Byzantine empire
Sophia
Established Persia as a Shiite nation
Ismail
descendent of Ismail who moved the Safavid capital to Baghdad
Abbas the Great