Amerigo Vespucci
Anglicanism (cf. Tudors; Week XV) -- Gallicanism -- Sanction of Bourges -- Estates General
Ludovico Ariosto -- Orlando Furioso
Peace of Augsburg
Burgundy -- "theatre state" -- Philip the Good -- Charles the Bold
Calicut (Calcuta) -- porcelain ("china")
Calvinism (cf. Week XV)
Caribs -- Caribbean Islands (cf. cannibal, Caliban) -- Hispaniola
Baldassare Castiglione -- The Courtier
Christopher Columbus
conquistadores (Sp "conquerors")
corregidor (Sp "corrector") -- cortes
Hernán Cortés -- Aztec -- Tenochtitlán -- Mexico -- New Spain -- Francisco Pizarro -- Inca
court -- courtliness -- courtesy (cf. Castiglione; cortesia, Week XI)
czar / tsar (< caesar)
Ferdinand of Aragon -- Isabella of Castile -- "most Catholic monarchs" -- Kingdom of Spain -- conversos (Sp "converts") -- Spanish Inquisition -- Kingdom of Granada -- expulsion of Jews
Republic of Florence -- Medici (family) -- Cosimo de' Medici -- Lorenzo de' Medici ("the Magnificent") -- catasto (cf. Engl "cadastre": land registration census)
François (Francis) I -- Valois
Fuggers -- Jakob Fugger
galley -- lateen sail -- caravel -- portolan map
Guinea
Habsburg -- Maximilian I -- Charles V -- Philip II (of Spain)
Hanseatic League -- Hanse
Italian Wars -- sack of Rome -- Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (cf. Habsburg, Valois)
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Leo Africanus
Lithuania -- Poland
Niccolò Machiavelli -- Mchiavellian (adj.) -- The Prince (cf. Week XII)
Ferdinand Magellan
Mayflower
Michelangelo Buonarroti -- Sistine Chapel (< Pope Sixtus IV)
Muscovy -- the "third Rome" -- Ivan III "the Great" -- Ivan IV "the Terrible" (cf. Week XV)
New Plymouth
the Northwest Passage
Ottomans -- Mehmet II "the Conqueror" -- Suleiman I "the Magnificent" (cf. Week XII)
Peasants' War (1525-26)
Philippines (< Philip II of Spain)
Portugal -- Prince Henry the Navigator
Prester John
Prospero -- Miranda -- Caliban -- Ariel -- Antonio -- Sebastian -- Alonso -- Gonzalo -- Stephano -- Trinculo
slavery -- slave trade
sugarcane -- tobacco - cocoa
Swiss Confederation
Teutonic order
Treaty of Tordesillas
Tudors -- Henry VII -- Henry VIII -- dissolution of monasteries -- enclosure movement -- Elizabeth I -- Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) -- John Knox (cf. Week XV)
Vasco da Gama -- Cape of Good Hope
Republic of Venice -- doge (< L dux, "duke") -- Peace of Lodi -- contado (Ital "hinterland") -- Duchy of Milan -- Kingdom of Naples & Sicily -- "balance of powers" diplomacy -- resident ambassadors
Virginia
War of the Roses -- House of Lancaster (red rose) -- House of York (white rose) -- Henry VII Tudor -- parliament (cf. Week XI)
West Indies