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