Deck 17: The East Asian World

Question 1

How did the Tokugawa "Great Peace" work? How did the society and economy of Japan change during the Tokugawa era,and how did Japanese culture reflect those changes?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What were the internal and external pressures that bore on the Qing rulers as China began to experience closer contact with the West? How effective were their short-term and long-term responses,and why?

Answer 2

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Question 3

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Li Zicheng

Answer 3

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Question 4

Discuss the three unifiers of Japan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,and the possible reasons for their success.

Question 5

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Zhu Yuanzhang

Question 6

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Beijing

Question 7

Was Qianlong's response to Lord Macartney's request to open China to British trade realistic or unrealistic? Was the emperor's negative response a logical outgrowth of China's history? Why and/or why not?

Question 8

Was Japan,after the expulsion of foreigners,actually more of a "Hermit Kingdom" than Korea? Why or why not?

Question 9

How did Qing China and Tokugawa Japan respond to the coming of the Europeans,and what explains the differences? What impact did European contacts have on these two East Asian civilizations through the end of the eighteenth century?

Question 10

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Ming dynasty

Question 11

Why was capitalism seemingly more successful in Japan than in China in the early modern era?

Question 12

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Qing dynasty

Question 13

"Kangxi was the very model of a Chinese emperor." Discuss pro and con.

Question 14

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Manchus/Jurchen

Question 15

How,and why,was the Ming dynasty followed by another non-Chinese dynasty so soon after the Yuan? Was it again a situation in which Chinese disunity proved fatal? Why? Why were the Manchus so successful at establishing a foreign dynasty in China,and what were the main characteristics of Manchu rule? How did economy and society change during the Ming and Qing eras,and to what degree did these changes seem to lead toward an industrial revolution on the European model?

Question 16

What were the most significant developments of the reigns of Kangxi,Yongzheng,and Qianlong?

Question 17

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Yongle

Question 18

What were the most significant cultural and socioeconomic developments which occurred in Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate?

Question 19

To what degree did developments in Korea during the period discussed in this chapter reflect conditions in China and Japan? What were the unique aspects of Vietnamese civilization?

Question 20

Would Europeans have made a greater,faster,and more favorable impression in East Asia if they had confined themselves to trade and not become involved in religious,and often political,activities there?

Question 21

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the "Forbidden City"

Question 22

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The Dream of the Red Chamber

Question 23

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the kowtow

Question 24

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dyarchy

Question 25

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East India Company/Canton

Question 26

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Qianlong

Question 27

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"Sacred Edict"

Question 28

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Treaty of Nerchinsk

Question 29

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Kangxi

Question 30

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Oda Nobunaga

Question 31

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Matteo Ricci,and Jesuits v.Dominicans and Franciscans

Question 32

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the queue

Question 33

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White Lotus Rebellion

Question 34

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"bannermen"

Question 35

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blue and white porcelain and chinoiserie

Question 36

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Heshen

Question 37

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Yang Jisheng

Question 38

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Gold Vase Plum/The Golden Lotus

Question 39

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Lord Macartney

Question 40

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joint family

Question 41

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-Saikaku's Five Women Who Loved Love

Question 42

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ronin

Question 43

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"Dutch learning"

Question 44

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eta

Question 45

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woodblock prints

Question 46

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Nagasaki

Question 47

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Yi Song Gye

Question 48

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"hostage system"

Question 49

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yangban

Question 50

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han

Question 51

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Francis Xavier

Question 52

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Tokugawa Ieyasu/Tokugawa Shogunate,and the "Great Peace"

Question 53

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Edo

Question 54

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Utamaro,Hokusai,and Hiroshige

Question 55

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Yi dynasty

Question 56

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Kabuki and No

Question 57

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fudai and tozama daimyo

Question 58

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bakufu

Question 59

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the "sword hunt"

Question 60

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Basho

Question 61

In comparing Mongol and Manchu rule in China,it can be accurately stated that the

A) Mongols were more successful than the Manchus.
B) Manchus were more successful than the Mongols.
C) Mongols were better at adapting to the ways of the Chinese than the Manchus.
D) Manchus produced a system of government in China in which there was absolutely no distinction made for Manchurian identification.
E) both succumbed to new invaders from the Asian steppes.

Question 62

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chonmin

Question 63

The primary fighting force of Qing China was the

A) Persian and Uzbek janissary corps.
B) dyarchy.
C) green standard.
D) bannermen.
E) queues.

Question 64

It is accurate to say that

A) local government was dominated by Manchus and Annamese in southern China.
B) Yongle moved the Ming capital from Nanjing to Amoy.
C) American crops such as peanuts and maize were introduced into China in the Qing Dynasty.
D) under the Ming, trade and other contacts increased between China and Japan.
E) the examination system was entirely abolished by the Qing.

Question 65

The name of the Chinese dynasty established by the Manchus was the

A) Yuan.
B) Tang.
C) Ming.
D) Qing.
E) Han.

Question 66

Qianlong

A) ended civil service corruption by demanding his standards of permanence and by ordering the public executions of a number of corrupt officials.
B) was the first emperor to have a French concubine given to him by the Japanese emperor.
C) was a great soldier who was killed in battle in Tibet.
D) fell under the influence of corrupt court elements.
E) retired at age forty-six and returned to his birthplace in Manchuria.

Question 67

The peasant revolt that brought down the preoccupied Ming Dynasty,and precipitated the ascension to control of the Manchus,was led by the disgruntled postal worker

A) Yuan Shi-Kai.
B) Li Zicheng.
C) Zheng Chenggong.
D) Koxinga.
E) Kangxi Lon.

Question 68

The Ming Dynasty

A) under Yongle, had Chinese ships bring back Christian missionaries to China.
B) sent a fleet far into the Indian Ocean.
C) sent a huge army into Japan, which captured and held the city of Edo for one year until a debt owed to the Chinese government was paid.
D) saw their fleets reach the Mediterranean Sea.
E) dismantled the Great Wall as it was no longer needed for the defense of China.

Question 69

The purpose of the Qing system known as dyarchy was

A) to maintain the Chinese exclusion from Manchu rule in China.
B) to assure the isolation of the Chinese from the Manchus in China.
C) a mechanism for the sharing of administrative positions by Manchus and Chinese.
D) to assure the Manchu administrative dictatorship of China.
E) to keep northern and southern China balanced politically.

Question 70

The Christian missionaries who accompanied the European merchant ships to East Asia

A) came primarily, at first, from the Lutheran and Greek Orthodox churches.
B) seemed less threatening to the Ming and Qing dynasties than to the Tokugawa shogunate.
C) were actually only twenty in number, and were ignored by the governments and peoples.
D) were widely resented by the Chinese population because of their all-too-obvious disinterest in the Chinese language and popular ideas.
E) were refused entry into China.

Question 71

Government under the Qing Dynasty

A) abandoned all of its Manchu roots.
B) gave Europeans preference over Chinese for civil service positions.
C) was actually no different than it had been under the Ming.
D) saw compromises made in the civil service examination system as positions were increasingly assigned to candidates who purchased their degrees.
E) although a dyarchy, in reality favored the Chinese over the Manchus.

Question 72

The boundary dispute between the Russian tsar and the Qing was settled by the Treaty of

A) Kazan.
B) Kiakhta.
C) Nerchinsk.
D) Nanking.
E) Sinkiang.

Question 73

The first European sea-faring nation desiring to trade with China and who arrived in 1514 was

A) Britain.
B) the Netherlands
C) Spain.
D) Portugal.
E) France.

Question 74

Arguably the greatest ruler in Chinese history was

A) Kangxi.
B) Hongwu.
C) Qianling.
D) Yongle.
E) Asoka.

Question 75

The rule of the Qing was weakened by the

A) corrupt behavior of Heshen.
B) Vietnam Rebellion.
C) tsarist foreign policy toward Japan.
D) recall and destruction of the fleet by Yongle.
E) military take-over by Lord Macartney.

Question 76

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hangul

Question 77

The "Sacred Edict" delineating proper Confucian behavior was issued by

A) Kangxi.
B) Ming-Loi.
C) Wu Zhao.
D) the Duke of Kamchatka.
E) Yongle.

Question 78

As a result of the controversy over the policy of Jesuit missionaries accommodating Chinese religious beliefs in order to facilitate conversion to Christianity,

A) the Pope permitted the Chinese to maintain their tradition of ancestor worship.
B) Kangxi's successors assisted in the suppression of Christianity in Japan.
C) the Pope forbade the practice of ancestor worship.
D) the Chinese emperors sent young Chinese boys to be educated in Rome.
E) China declared war against the West.

Question 79

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Gia Long and the Nguyen dynasty

Question 80

The Portuguese base of operations in China,granted when they arrived in China,was the territory of

A) Xian.
B) Canton.
C) Macao.
D) Hong Kong.
E) Shanghai.