History Crossword
Across
- 3. ______ Sese Seko, authoritarian leader who overthrew Patrice Lumumba
- 5. aka Battle of Sharpsburg, the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War
- 10. Naval battle between Greek and Persian forces that occurred concurrently with Thermopylae
- 14. One of two battleships given to Ottoman Empire from Germany, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim
- 15. Name of a Swiss city; Treaty of ___ gave Turkey it's modern-day borders
- 17. Leader of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
- 18. Tactic adopted by Hannibal at the battles of Trebia and Lake Trasimene
- 19. Frankish dynasty that succeeded the Merovingians
- 20. Commune where papacy shifted due to conflict with the French crown
Down
- 1. One of two greatest cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the other being Mohenjo-Daro
- 2. ______ Khan, established the Yuan dynasty
- 4. King Taksin the Great ruled during this period which preceded the Rattanakosin period of Thailand
- 6. Varus lost his legions at the Battle of ___ Forest
- 7. House that split into the Swabian and Franconian branches
- 8. Battle that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate
- 9. Island fought over during the Sino-Soviet border dispute
- 11. George Tupou was king of this Polynesian island nation
- 12. Site of a battle where Sultan Murad I lost to Prince Lazar; a country with Pristina as its capital
- 13. Meaning ‘five principles’ in Javanese, it is Indonesia’s philosophical foundation
- 16. Piedmont-______, state played a key role in Italian unification