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Sixteenth-century Spanish historian and missionary, Bartholomé de ___ ____, who exposed the European oppression of indigenous American peoples (3,5) The capital of the Egyptian empire in its heyday (6) African republic that gained independence from France in 1960, under president Hamani Diori (5) Malala ____, activist for female education who survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman in 2012 (9) One of earliest examples of such text is the ancient Sumerian Kesh Temple Hymn, inscribed on clay tablets (9) A prehistoric circular or oval earthen enclosure (5) Peninsula, once home of Illyrian tribes, mostly occupied by (what was) Yugoslavia after the Second World The battle of ____ (16–19 October 1813) was a decisive defeat for Napoleon (7) A 4th/5th-century teacher of astronomy and philosophy, the first female mathematician for whom reliable records exist (7) Author of the acclaimed political fable (1945) based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution (6) Former capital of Artois, famed in the 14th century for its fine tapestries (its name became the English word for such hangings) (5) Byname of the son of a Lichfield bookseller, who rose to become one of the 18th century's greatest literary figures (2,7) Newgate Prison was on the original site of this London law court (3,6) A dying Charles II, it's said, requested that she not starve (5) Country modernised and made into a great European power by King Gustavus Adolphus in the 17th century (6) The 1986 ____ scandal during the Reagan administration involved arms sales to Iran (8)
