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- 1. The group of (usually) elected people who make the laws for their country.
- 4. Long walls or embankments built to prevent flooding from the sea.
- 7. Forcible or passive resistance to lawful authority.
- 12. Feudal monarchy that encompassed present-day Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, as well as parts of eastern France, northern Italy (not Rome), Slovenia, and western Poland at the start of the early modern centuries. Started when Charlemagne conquered the Germanic lands and was crowned by the pope.
- 13. Feudal landowners equivalent to medieval European lords. They were leaders of powerful warrior bands, controlled the provinces of Japan.
- 14. A block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape.
- 15. A set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.
- 16. English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England
- 20. Groups of people that joined the separatists on their trip to the New World.
- 21. Protestant Separatists that hoped to establish a new church in the New World.
- 22. English Protestant Christians, primarily active in the 16th-18th centuries CE, who claimed the Anglican Church had not distanced itself sufficiently from Catholicism and sought to 'purify' it of Catholic practices.
- 23. Member of the Japanese warrior caste.
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- 1. Popular term applied to all the Mayflower passengers.
- 2. Ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.
- 3. The words, Japan, Nippon, Nihon all mean “the origin of the sun”.
- 5. Special contract the King of Spain granted to conquistadores giving them permission to sail to Central and South America and take gold and silver back to Spain.
- 6. A conqueror, Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs. Brought gold and silver back to Spain.
- 8. A type of large Korean warship. The ship's name derives from its protective shell-like covering.
- 9. The belief that the monarch's authority comes directly from God rather than from the people and could not be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority.
- 10. A water passage that would run all the way through North America connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
- 11. Was the largest empire of the ancient world. Its capital was Rome, and its empire was based on the Mediterranean Sea. The empire started in 27 BC, when Octavian became Emperor Augustus.
- 17. A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 18. Areas of land. A territorial area within a country.
- 19. A person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- 23. Military ruler of Japan.