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