Across
- 4. Highly trained Japanese warriors
- 5. An indigenous Cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru.
- 7. A wandering samurai who had no lord or master
- 8. A castrated male who is employed in the Chinese imperial court.
- 12. Series of tax reform measures that simplified the Chinese taxation system during the Ming Dynasty
- 14. The standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect.
- 15. Japanese feudal lord
- 17. An ancient Chinese belief system that focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality; derived from the teachings of Confucius.
- 19. When a group acts out violently to overthrow and replace those in power.
- 20. 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.
- 22. “floating world,” originally a Buddhist term meaning “fleeting world” but later referred to world of courtesans in Japan (i.e. ukiyo-e meaning “pictures of the floating world”)
- 25. Tewa Pueblo who led revolt in 1680 against the Spanish in New Mexico.
- 26. Communities of runaway slaves in the Americas.
Down
- 1. Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers
- 2. The Chinese system for managing foreign relations that established rules for how foreign countries could contact and establish trade with China
- 3. The use of surprise raids, sabotage, etc., by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in enemy territory.
- 6. A tribal chieftain.
- 9. The monarch of the Mbundu people, was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa.
- 10. The enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages.
- 11. Policy of being united or made into a whole
- 13. An African or Afro-American person who freed themself from enslavement and lived in communities outside of plantations.
- 16. Policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries
- 18. A military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves.
- 21. Opposition to one in authority or dominance; generally seeks to evade and/or gain concessions from an oppressive power.
- 23. Japanese military ruler, highest ranking daimyo
- 24. Relating to the characteristics of feudalism, the system of political and social organization based on the relationship between a lord and a vassal