AP World Important People

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Across
  1. 2. enlightenment thinkers of the late modern period
  2. 6. Catholic priest who was a main leader of the Mexican War of Independance and was able to call on parishoners to rise up against the Spanish
  3. 8. creator of the idea of collecting specific examples and then coming up with a more general conclusion
  4. 10. one of the most famous kings of england who had 6 wives and desperately wanted a son to be his successor and the heir to the throne
  5. 12. Founder of Islam who received visions from the angel Gabriel and started spreading them giving him a following, and he eventually partook in the Hijra and then founded Islam.
  6. 15. One of the main leaders of the Latin America Wars of Independence who was able to establish the Gran Columbia and inspire many Latin Americans to revolt through his Letter from Jamaica
  7. 16. Philosopher who introduced the “Socratic Method”. Established the idea of further questioning to form a deeper understanding of a topic.
  8. 18. Travel writer who traveled the world writing about his findings so that people who couldn’t travel there could get a sense of what the rest of the world was like.
Down
  1. 1. Inventor of the printing press.
  2. 3. US Admiral sent to Japan to convince them to open their borders to the US to trade and gave them one year to do it which led to the Meji Restoration
  3. 4. Portuguese explorer who even though his name claims otherwise never went on an expedition to discover trade routes and new land rather funded them.
  4. 5. Chinese philosopher and politician who founded Confucianism
  5. 7. Former slave who lead the Haitian revolution
  6. 9. creator of the idea of starting with a general principle and then proceeding to specific knowledge
  7. 11. Leader of France during the French Revolution. Tried to gain them lots of land however made many mistakes which caused him to be exiled and the French to suffer
  8. 12. A main leader of the Protestant Reformation who began the reformation and wrote the 95 theses which resented the dominant Christian religion
  9. 13. Muhammad’s cousin & son-in-law who was supposed to be his designated successor as the first caliph but lost to Abu Bakr.
  10. 14. creator of Calvinism and another main figure in the Protestant Reformation
  11. 17. First caliph after Muhammad dies. No blood relation to Muhammad so not a designated successor.
  12. 19. Greek philosopher who created the idea of rational examination of a variety of earthly matters, and of more abstract realms.