Important People and Events in World History

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Across
  1. 1. A period of European cultural, artistic, political, and economic rebirth following the middle ages.
  2. 3. A period where the people started to make tools out of _______ and it was even traded.
  3. 5. A long period of relative peace and stability experienced by the Early Roman Empire.
  4. 9. claimed to have heard voices that told her to liberate France from the hands of the English.
  5. 10. A French Playwright and political activist whose writing on women’s rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
  6. 14. last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
  7. 15. a tribunal started in 1478 in Spain. It was started by Ferdinand and Isabelle during this time many people were burnt in front of crowds on the street.
  8. 16. A navigational tool that determines direction. It was invented by the Chinese.
  9. 17. A French lawyer and politician, as well as the most influential person during the French Revolution.
  10. 18. He unified the Mongol tribes and set them on a path of expansion.
  11. 20. used for transportation such as horse pulled carts.
  12. 23. an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised to care for wounded soldiers.
  13. 25. Under him, the T’ang expanded Chinese territories into parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea.
  14. 26. it measures the incline position of celestial bodies to determine locations.
  15. 27. Maurya converted to Buddhism and is known for his Rock and Pillar Edicts.
  16. 28. A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibres from their seeds.
  17. 29. A Carthaginian general one of the greatest military generals. He led his army all the way to northern Italy and crossed the Alps using elephants.
Down
  1. 2. a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa
  2. 4. the first wireless form of communication could broadcast it in places that couldn't be reached by the telegraph; radio waves used for radar and communication in war; allowed people to listen to current, live news rather than old news
  3. 6. An ancient highway built by the Persian king Darius the Great; built in the 5th century BCE.
  4. 7. He invented the printing press.
  5. 8. under her leadership Egypt explored, built, and grew a lot. She even expanded Egypt’s trade routes.
  6. 11. Rusian tsar. He introduced Western language and technologies to Russia and moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
  7. 12. A period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became urban and industrial.
  8. 13. the sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty. He was a great military general and his law code which is known as the code of _________was the first step to modern law codes.
  9. 19. an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
  10. 21. War A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II.
  11. 22. The Chaldean King, he rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture.
  12. 24. An English philosopher and physician also known as the “Father of Liberalism.”
  13. 25. She oversaw the golden age in the arts of England also known as _________ Age.