Medieval China and Japan

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Across
  1. 2. payment made by one country to another as a sign of respect
  2. 5. supreme commander of the army who ruled Japan for the emperor
  3. 6. powerful shogun family led by Ieyasu and his successors
  4. 8. hard white ceramic
  5. 11. related to an empire
  6. 14. trader from Venice who stayed in China for 17 years and worked for Kublai Khan
  7. 15. form of drama with melodramatic singing and dancing by men in costumes
  8. 16. the traditional religion of Japan based on respect for nature and ancestors
  9. 17. Indian religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama
  10. 18. a poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each
  11. 19. a trained warrior who owes military service and loyalty to their lord
  12. 20. Mongol ruler who controlled all of China
  13. 21. a form of Buddhism focusing on self discipline, simplicity, and meditation
  14. 22. belief system based on the ideas of Confucius
  15. 24. people from the region northeast of China who founded the Qing Dynasty
Down
  1. 1. admiral who led a huge Chinese fleet on seven voyages
  2. 3. a person who rules in place of an absent or underage monarch (king)
  3. 4. a type of printing using wooden blocks with enough characters to print entire pages
  4. 7. Mongol ruler who conquered northern China and Central Asia
  5. 9. a Japanese lord with large landholdings
  6. 10. belief system that seeks harmony with nature and inner feelings
  7. 12. to bring a group together after it has been divided
  8. 13. imperial family’s walled palaces in Beijing
  9. 17. a government which as been divided into departments
  10. 23. a person who receives land and protection from a lord in return for loyalty