An English historian with this surname, better known for his expertise on the Portuguese colonial period, is the eponym of a 16th-century Spanish ethnographic codex that documented Filipino customs. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this word that Europeans used to refer to the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, which was defeated during the Siege of the International Legations in a namesake rebellion in Qīng China.
ANSWER: boxers [accept Boxer Rebellion; accept C. R. Boxer or Charles Ralph Boxer; accept Boxer Codex]
[10m] The codex contains depictions of Chinese nobility and may draw influence from this classic Chinese text in its faunal illustrations according to Souza and Turley’s most recent translation. This text contains myths from the “great wilderness.”
ANSWER: Shān Hǎi Jīng [or Classic of Mountains and Seas; accept Guideways Through Mountains and Seas; accept Classic of Mountains and Rivers; accept Saan Hoi Ging]
[10h] In the codex, a Portuguese bishop wrote a “rutter” to this state instructing the Spanish crown on how to conquer it. This state’s ruler Iskandar Muda was allegorized as a “young” Alexander the Great.
ANSWER: Aceh Sultanate [or Acèh Darussalam; accept Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam or Keurajeuën Acèh Darussalam; accept Rutter of Aceh]
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