History Midterm Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
  2. 7. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America
  3. 8. required payments to a government
  4. 9. a form of government in which power ultimately rests with the people, either directly or through elected representatives
  5. 11. a massive upheaval in ideas or ways of doing something, or the wide scale change or transformation that occurs because of it
  6. 13. having the power of self-government, as a state or country
  7. 15. A group organized by rank or level of authority
  8. 17. territory controlled by a central government
  9. 19. the act or process of forming territories governed by a distant country
  10. 21. having origin in a country or locality; native
Down
  1. 1. a high-ranking social class, having special privileges and influence
  2. 3. segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
  3. 4. an infectious and deadly disease that is believed to have existed for thousands of years
  4. 5. the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property
  5. 6. italian explorer
  6. 10. an eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason
  7. 12. belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.
  8. 13. A network of Eurasian trade routes
  9. 14. a large estate used for cultivating commercial crops such as rubber, tea, cotton, sugar, or coffee
  10. 16. ability to resist infection
  11. 18. the capital city of the Aztec empire located in what is now Mexico City
  12. 20. nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Aztec Empire