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Across 4. Daughter of King Henry VIII and second wife Anne Boleyn (2 Words) 5. Nephew of Elizabeth I of England, was her successor to the Throne of England and the First of the Stuart line of British Royalty (2 Words) 8. artistic style of the seventeenth century, characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements 13. an Italian sculptor and architect (3 Words) 21. Spanish playwright, poet, novelist and marine. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature (3 Words) 23. belief that a king receives their power from God and are only answerable to God (4 Words) 24. political system in which a ruler holds total power 26. Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death in 1725 (3 Words) 28. a country in northwestern Europe, is known for a flat landscape of canals, tulip fields, windmills and cycling routes. 29. -- a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. (3 Words) 32. supporters of King Charles I during the English Civil War 34. an English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death (2 Words) 35. monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649 (2 Words) 38. a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars by French emperor Napoleon (3 Words) 40. a region encompassing the western Czech Republic 41. 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) 42. Rapidly rising costs 43. Russian monarch, Russian form of Latin Caesar

Down 1. Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1686 (5 Words) 2. a historically prominent German state that originated in 1525 with a duchy centered on the region of Prussia 3. English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed 5. English philosopher and physician widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". (2 Words) 6. a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance 7. French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman (2 Words) 9. Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. (2 Words) 10. -- supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War 11. German speaking in Central Europe 12. First of the Romanov Czars of Russia, Appointed by the Duma in 1613 (2 Words) 14. French Protestants 15. a republic 16. King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily (3 Words) 17. first of the Bourbon kings of France (3 Words) 18. English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy (2 Words) 19. Russia's second-largest city after Moscow (2 Words) 20. English poet, playwright and actor widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist (2 Words) 22. Prince of Orange, also known as William the Silent or William the Taciturn, or more commonly known as William of Orange, was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs (3 Words) 25. U.K.’s northernmost country, is a land of mountain wildernesses such as the Cairngorms and Northwest Highlands 27. Island off the Western Coast of Great Britain 30. broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups 31. known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715 (2 Words) 33. combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause, and typically favoring extreme, violent, or confrontational methods. 36. a fleet of warships 37. Spanish painter, was of Greek origin (2 Words) 39. Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then Tsar of All Rus' until his death in 1584 (2 Words) 40. member of the Imperial Russian aristocracy