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World History Crossword Puzzle

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History of the world featuring events, empires, people, places and countries.
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      1. Historical region between Tigris and Euphrates River
      7. Cao ___ , general of Eastern Han dynasty under warlord Cao Cao in 3rd century AD
      9. First Russian President Boris
      10. Turkish empire
      11. ___ Ying, Chinese military ambassador to Rome during 1st century AD
      13. American space administration founded in 1958 (acronym)
      18. Mid 19th century Mexican military general and president, Antonio Lopez de Santa ___
      20. First name of the wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu
      21. 40th US President Ronald
      22. Popular Greek and Roman sport, chariot ___
      24. Birthplace of the Renaissance during the 1400s and 1500s
      25. Commission to investigate JFK's assassination
      27. Austrian Jewish physicist Robert von ___ (1878-1913)
      29. Birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi
      30. Cape ___, race people mainly originated from Dutch East Indies colony
      32. Famous Confederate general Bedford Forrest
      35. ___ massacre, killing of 8 Hindus by a Muslim mob on 2 May 2003 in Kerala
      38. One of the greatest poets of Kannada language (949-1020 AD)
      40. Battle off ___, large naval battle in the Philippine Sea on 25 Oct 1944
      41. ___ Nobunaga, first "Great Unifier" of Japan during the 16th century
      42. Date of Julius Caesar's death (4,2,5)

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      1. Mesoamerican civilization
      2. Daily commodity controlled by the government during imperial rule in China (plural)
      3. 11th century Italian maritime power city in Tuscany
      4. Dynasty which succeeded Sui in 6th century
      5. Historic landing on this satellite by man on July 1969
      6. The ___ of Union in 1707
      7. Empire from 27 BC to 1453 AD
      8. Indian empire from 344 to 322 BC, capital at Pataliputra
      12. Macedonian greatest conqueror
      14. Bronze ___
      15. North African country colonized by France from 1830 to 1962
      16. Doctrine expounded by Soviet first paramount leader
      17. One of the thirteen colonies established in 1632 AD
      18. ___ Olympic Games founded in Greece in 776 BC
      19. Who was Mother Teresa
      21. Lt. General Sir ___ Turner, senior Canadian officer during 2nd Boer War (initials)
      23. American gangster nicknamed "Machine ___ Kelly" (1895-1954)
      26. ___ al-Din Atsiz, Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214
      28. First Lady of Argentina, Peron
      30. Venetian traveler Polo
      31. Francisco de ___, Spanish general (1783-1842), fought in Napoleonic War campaigns
      33. Polish Jewish poet, Marian ___ (1901-1972)
      34. British Prime Minister from 1770-1782, Lord ___
      36. 2nd wife of King Henry VIII, Boleyn
      37. Italian Prime Minister ___ Moro, murdered in 1978
      39. Greek shipping magnate ___ Onassis
      40. ___ Walton, founder of Walmart