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Across 5. commonly known as Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 (2 Words) 8. a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. (2 Words) 9. or Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire (3 Words) 11. doctrine that kings derive their authority from God (4 Words) 13. known as Louis the Great or the Sun King (2 Words) 14. region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic. 15. combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause 16. capital city of the Czech Republic 17. A supporter of Charles I of England in his struggles against Parliament 18. English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers (2 Words) 22. Spain's central capital 27. alternative name for Holland 28. the first monarch of France's Bourbon Dynasty (3 Words) 31. as King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns (2 Words) 33. capital of Belgium 34. I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603 (2 Words) 35. a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language (3 Words) 36. Austria is a German-speaking country in Central Europe 37. called "the Prudent", was King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily (3 Words) 38. King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (2 Words) 39. any right that exists by virtue of natural law (2 Words)

Down 1. title of rulers or emperors of Russia from the sixteenth century until the Russian Revolution 2. Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia – and thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia – from 1640 until his death in 1688 (5 Words) 3. In Medieval Russia, an aristocratic tier of society as well as a powerful group 4. French Protestants 5. an island in the North Atlantic 6. historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg 7. was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649 (2 Words) 10. multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 (3 Words) 12. became the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov (2 Words) 19. Lord Protector of England, ran it as a commonwealth from 1649-1660 (2 Words) 20. Political system in which a ruler holds total power 21. a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist (3 Words) 23. an Italian sculptor and architect (2 Words) 24. Doménikos Theotokópoulos, a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance (2 Words) 25. Fleet of Warships 26. was the period from 1649—1660 onwards when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, was ruled as a republic 29. Rapid increase in prices 30. a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance 32. is a German-speaking country in Central Europe