Global History Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Dutch-descended settlers who fought the British in southern Africa.
- 5. African kingdom that defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
- 8. Japanese era of rapid modernization beginning in 1868.
- 9. Bolshevik leader of the Russian Revolution.
- 10. French Enlightenment thinker who defended religious tolerance.
- 11. Political and economic control of another territory.
- 13. English scientist associated with gravity and the laws of motion.
- 16. Italian city at the heart of the Renaissance and Medici power
- 17. Movement to end slavery.
- 18. Empire that controlled much of southeastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for centuries.
- 20. City where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
- 21. Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644.
Down
- 1. Largest country in South America and former Portuguese colony.
- 2. French palace where the 1919 peace treaty with Germany was signed.
- 4. American general and first U.S. president.
- 6. British queen during the height of nineteenth-century imperialism.
- 7. Country where a major revolution began in 1910, challenging the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
- 11. Disease that prompted major nineteenth-century public-health reforms.
- 12. Mesoamerican civilization conquered by Cortés.
- 14. French emperor and military conqueror.
- 15. Pandemic that spread worldwide during and after World War I.
- 19. British rule in India.