A Museum of World History: 1400-1499 (Level 1: From clue to name)

One of the two best-known artists in history spends his childhood with the family of a stonecutter, heads to Rome to find work as a sculptor at age 17, and at age 24, finishes this scupture of a mother, holding in her lap the body of her son after he has been publicly executed.

The best-known painter in German history is the first to devote so much attention to the art of the self-portrait.

This son of a slave and a sultan is 21 when he orchestrates the capture of Constantinople, then capital of the Byzantine Empire, and launches the ascendance of the Ottman Empire.

This Portuguese sea captain is the first to sail from Europe to India.

The Belgian painter, the first great master of realistic oil painting, is paid by wealthy private citizens to paint their portraits.

This sculptor from Firenze is 54 when he produces the first large-scale, free-standing nude status produced since the Classical Era in Europe.

The best-known painter in history born prior to 1450 spends his entire life in the neighborhood in Firenze where he is born and is all but forgotten in the years following his death until art lovers rediscover him at the end of the 19th century

This Italian sea captain is the first to sail from Europe to the Caribbean islands.

This native of Mainz, Germany is responsible for what some historians consider the most important event of the millennium.

This monolith serves as the Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynastry from 224 years.

These monarchs orchestrate the fall of the last Muslim stronghold in Euorpe and subsequently order the Jews in their realm to either become Christians or to leave their realm along with the Muslims.

This 17-year-old farmer's daughter leads the French to victory over the English at Orleans, 24 years before the end of the "100 Years War."