Secularism and an emphasis on the individual characterized the renaissance. As humanism, based on the study of classics encouraged such elements and most noticeable in the intellectual and artistic accomplishments of the period.
Pol Pot was the military dictator of Cambodia, as well as the leader of the Khmer Rouge. He was the prime minister as well. Pol Pot murdered millions under his regime in the "killing fields", which were mass graves.
Thomas Jefferson believed it would take 300 years to settle the frontier. Now the mainland states took 305 years, while the western frontier took 137 years
South Central Mexico (specifically the states of Veracruz and Tabasco)