People on World History 2 Final

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Across
  1. 5. Led Prussia through unification to create Germany, practiced realpolitik, started and won the Franco-Prussian War
  2. 8. Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to reach India by water
  3. 12. Wrote Leviathan, believed humans existed in a primitive state of nature and that a strong government was needed to protect people from themselves
  4. 14. Renaissance writer who excelled at sonnets, plays, and essays
  5. 16. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
Down
  1. 1. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
  2. 2. French explorer who explored Northern Canada
  3. 3. Explorer for Spain who “discovered” the new world
  4. 4. Former slave who led the Haitian rebellion against the French
  5. 6. Wrote The Wealth of Nations, capitalists, believed in the strength of the market
  6. 7. Spanish explorer who started the first trip to circumnavigate Earth
  7. 9. Believed that salvation came from faith alone, that the Bible was the ultimate authority, his 95 theses were the beginning of the Protestant Church
  8. 10. Wrote Two Treatises on Government, believed government should protect peoples’ natural rights (life, liberty, property)
  9. 11. Used telescope to support heliocentric theory, eventually recanted his work to the Church, which followed the geocentric model.
  10. 13. His assassination was the spark that started World War I
  11. 15. British explorer who helped defeat the Spanish Armada and then sailed around the world