World History

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides (plural) (8)
  2. 4. Italian fascist dictator (9)
  3. 7. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes (plural) (6)
  4. 8. The capital of New Zealand (10)
  5. 11. German Nazi dictator during World War II (6)
  6. 12. Prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy (6)
  7. 13. English mathematician and physicist (6)

Down

  1. 1. Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory (8)
  2. 2. British statesman and leader during World War II (9)
  3. 4. Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (9)
  4. 5. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state (6)
  5. 6. A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC (9)
  6. 7. A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (10)
  7. 9. French general who became emperor of the French (8)
  8. 10. A pocket-sized device used to play music files (4)