Deck 5: From Superpower to Semi-Colony: China From the Ming to 1895

Question 1

During Ming rule, attitudes towards merchants were ________ compared to attitudes under Yuan rule.

A) similar
B) more favorable
C) somewhat different
D) reversed

Answer 1

D

Question 2

By around 1800, commercial traditions in the East Asian sphere and in the sphere of European and Islamic traders were ________.

A) developing along similar lines
B) in harmony
C) distinctive but compatible
D) in conflict

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Like the Yuan, Qing culture was ________ earlier Chinese cultural patterns.

A) distinct from
B) almost identical to
C) reshaped to conform to
D) hostile to

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Khan Galban was the ruler of the ________.

A) Mongols
B) Toba
C) Zunghars
D) Manchus

Question 5

Which of these were given trade monopolies under the tribute system?

A) factories
B) Cohong
C) British merchants
D) Taiwan

Question 6

The White Lotus rebellion developed in resistance to ________.

A) foreign traders
B) Qing rule
C) Buddhism
D) Ming rulers

Question 7

Which of these was a key goal of Lord Macartney in 1793?

A) beginning trade between Britain and China
B) allying with China against Japan
C) annexation of Taiwan
D) direct contact with the Chinese government

Question 8

Which of these was a consistent problem for European merchants through the 1800s?

A) finding Chinese markets for European goods
B) the superiority of Chinese naval power which blocked European access to Chinese ports
C) the lack of interest in Europe for Chinese goods
D) finding a form of payment that the Chinese would accept

Question 9

Conflict between China and Britain came to a head over the ________.

A) interference of Japanese merchants
B) Sino-Japanese conflict
C) opium trade
D) fate of American sailors

Question 10

The Treaty of Nanjing was a key example of which of these historical developments?

A) the self-strengthening movement
B) the Taiping rebellion
C) national humiliation
D) Manchu rule

Question 11

The Taiping rebellion is considered a revolution because it sought ________.

A) social transformation
B) a new administration
C) ethnic cleansing
D) justice for peasants

Question 12

-The Taiping Seal could best be used by historians to understand Taiping ________.

A) ideology
B) finances
C) strategies
D) demographics

Question 13

The treaty that resulted from war between China and the British and French was unusual because it was ________.

A) never ratified by any of the parties
B) ratified but not put into effect
C) unequal, favoring one party over another
D) enforced without Chinese ratification

Question 14

-Looking at Map 5.6, for China, the significance of Kashgaria for China is best described as ________.

A) critical
B) minor
C) strategic
D) fatal

Question 15

In the context of nineteenth-century relations between Western powers and China, Zuo Zongtang's campaign against Yakub Beg was ________.

A) typical
B) surprising
C) part of the downward trend
D) a signal that the trend was being reversed

Question 16

Which of these was a bone of contention in the Sino-Japanese War?

A) Vietnam
B) Chang'an
C) Mongolia
D) Korea

Question 17

The demands of John Hay ________ the demands of Lord Macartney decades earlier.

A) went much further than
B) represented a reversal of
C) were nearly identical to
D) were ideological the opposite of

Question 18

The Sacred Edicts represented Qing attempts to ________.

A) reform the Confucian social system
B) restore Ming rule
C) rule as orthodox Chinese emperors
D) accommodate the demands of the Taiping rebels

Question 19

Which of these first appeared in China in the nineteenth century?

A) printing presses
B) higher education
C) newspapers
D) novels