Medieval China and Japan

2. payment made by one country to another as a sign of respect
5. supreme commander of the army who ruled Japan for the emperor
6. powerful shogun family led by Ieyasu and his successors
8. hard white ceramic
11. related to an empire
14. trader from Venice who stayed in China for 17 years and worked for Kublai Khan
15. form of drama with melodramatic singing and dancing by men in costumes
16. the traditional religion of Japan based on respect for nature and ancestors
17. Indian religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama
18. a poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each
19. a trained warrior who owes military service and loyalty to their lord
20. Mongol ruler who controlled all of China
21. a form of Buddhism focusing on self discipline, simplicity, and meditation
22. belief system based on the ideas of Confucius
24. people from the region northeast of China who founded the Qing Dynasty

1. admiral who led a huge Chinese fleet on seven voyages
3. a person who rules in place of an absent or underage monarch (king)
4. a type of printing using wooden blocks with enough characters to print entire pages
7. Mongol ruler who conquered northern China and Central Asia
9. a Japanese lord with large landholdings
10. belief system that seeks harmony with nature and inner feelings
12. to bring a group together after it has been divided
13. imperial family’s walled palaces in Beijing
17. a government which as been divided into departments
23. a person who receives land and protection from a lord in return for loyalty