Top 50 most influential people

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