Top 50 most influential people
Across
- 1. contributions for the field of astronomy, finds that the earth revolves around the sun
- 3. 3rd president of U.S, author of the Declaration of Independence
- 7. advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state
- 8. invented dynamite
- 9. the second king of Israel
- 12. the founder of Islam, religious figure
- 16. painted the Madonna and the child
- 19. lead singer of the band queens
- 20. social contract and his ideas in inequality
- 21. “king of pop”
- 23. leading the French army to victory in the Hundred Years’ War
- 24. contributions to the development of Ancient Greek philosophy which provided the foundation for all western philosophy
- 27. inventing the first printing press
- 28. painted the Mona Lisa, and the last supper
- 30. the theory of evolution
- 31. painting of “the ceiling of the Sistine chapel”
- 33. leading the Jews out of Egypt, and for receiving the Ten Commandments
- 38. inventor of the modern alternating current electricity supply system
- 40. took in an entire city hostage
- 41. first European to sail around Africa to India
- 42. first emperor to convert to Christianity
- 43. created three laws of motion
- 44. one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, one of the most important figures in early Christianity
- 47. military conquests and the establishment of the napoleonic code
- 48. 16th president of U.S and led the country through civil war
- 50. queen of France during eighteenth century, being guillotined
Down
- 2. he conquered almost all of Europe
- 4. writer of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
- 5. 95 thesis
- 6. leader of the Soviet Union
- 10. a Roman general that destroyed the Roman republic and led to the rise of the Roman Empire
- 11. British politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom
- 13. philosopher of the four causes of everything (material, formal, efficient, and final)
- 14. father of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions
- 15. founder of Buddhism and the teachings of the four noble truths
- 17. Bolshevik Revolution which led to the establishment of Union of Soviet socialist republics
- 18. his code of laws
- 22. first holy Roman emperor, uniting the Western Europe and expanding the Frankish kingdom
- 25. first American president, commander of the continental army, president of the constitutional convention
- 26. last pharaoh of Egypt
- 29. the son of god, and dying on the cross for sins of mankind
- 32. Ordered the atomic bombs
- 34. inventing the electric light bulb
- 35. Plato cave
- 36. leader of the Indian independence movement, and his nonviolent resistance
- 37. (Santa clause)
- 39. the theatre of relativity
- 45. the longest reigning British monarch
- 46. discovering America
- 49. painting surrealist paintings