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Dactoids (Republican Alert!):
 * Factoids:**
 * 1) //Mona Lisa// by Leonardo daVinci was completed. (1506)
 * 2) Cortes completes his conquest of the Aztecs (1521)
 * 3) Kongo kingdom in central Africa reaches its height. (early 1500s)

Jactoids (Leaf burning alert!): In Europe, Pope Julis II excommunicates the Republic of Venice in February, 1510. In 1419, Portugese explorers first began exploring the African coast. Juan Sebastian Elcano was one of the few sailors to survive Magellan’s circumnavigation trip in 1522.

Kit's Super Awesome Factoids 1:Cortes and his army of Conquistadors captured and destroyed the Aztec city in Tenochtitlan in 1521 2:In 1526, Babur finds the Muhgal dynasty in India which is a very sophisticated civilization much admired by Europeans 3:In 1534 in the Act of Supremacy, Henry VIII breaks off of the church in Rome and forms his own in England

Christian's factoids:
 * 1) King Affonso of the Kongo was respected, and perhaps even liked, by Portugal.
 * 2) Samuel De Champlain built the first permanent settlement in Quebec.
 * 3) Galileo was interrogated by the Inquisition.

Kirsten's Factoids: 1. 1509: Henry VIII takes English Throne, same year Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. 2. 1513: Balboa becomes the first person to come across the Pacific Ocean. 3. 1498: Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers new sea route to India.

Kit's People: Prince Henry the Navigator or Prince Henry of Portugal, Niccolo Machiavelli Other People: Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, Pop Leo X, Cosimo de' Medici, Pope Paul III, Rene Descartes,
 * People:**

Dan's People: Donatello, Peter Paul Rubens Also encountered: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Protesants, Catholics, Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare 3 other people (HOMEWORK): John Smith, Francis Xavier, Bartolome' de Las Casas

Christian: Galileo, Sir Francis Bacon Other people: the Medicis, Johannes Kepler, Copernicus, Pope Urban VIII, Queen Elizabeth, James I of England, Michael Mastlin, Tycho Brahe, Bonaventura Cavalieri

Jack's people: Teresa of Avila, John Calvin. Other people: John Knox, Martin Luther

Kirsten's People: Michelangelo, Raphael, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros Other people: Lorenzo De'Medici, Leonardo, Duke Federico da Montefeltro