Deck 17: The East Asian World

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Manchus/Jurchen

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

How did the Tokugawa "Great Peace" work?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

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 5

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

Question 6

What behavior patterns were encouraged and discouraged by Confucian commandments in Japan and China of the 17^th and 18^th centuries?

Question 7

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?

Question 8

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

Question 9

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Yongle and Hongwu

Question 10

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

Question 11

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Ming Dynasty

Question 12

Compare and contrast Tokugawa's response to the European incursions in the sixteenth-eighteenth century with that of Qing China.What were the similarities and what were the differences?

Question 13

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

Question 14

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Qing Dynasty

Question 15

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Zhu Yuanzhang/Ming Hongwu

Question 16

Explain how the makeup of the ideal 17^th-and 18^th-century East Asian family related to the teachings of Confucius.Use concrete examples to illustrate your arguments.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Li Zicheng

Question 20

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 responses in both the short term and the long term,and why?

Question 21

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Matteo Ricci,and Jesuits v.Dominicans and Franciscans

Question 22

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the kowtow

Question 23

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Lord Macartney

Question 24

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"bannermen"

Question 25

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"Sacred Edict"

Question 26

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Treaty of Nerchinsk

Question 27

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Gold Vase Plum/The Golden Lotus

Question 28

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Kangxi

Question 29

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blue and white porcelain and chinoiserie

Question 30

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Qianlong

Question 31

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Chen Shu

Question 32

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the "Forbidden City"

Question 33

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joint family

Question 34

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Heshen

Question 35

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Beijing

Question 36

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White Lotus Rebellion

Question 37

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the queue

Question 38

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East India Company/Canton

Question 39

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The Dream of the Red Chamber

Question 40

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dyarchy

Question 41

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the Hermit Kingdom

Question 42

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"hostage system"

Question 43

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Kabuki and No

Question 44

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Francis Xavier

Question 45

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Yi dynasty

Question 46

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the "sword hunt"

Question 47

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Utamaro,Hokusai and Hiroshige

Question 48

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Saikaku's Five Women Who Loved Love

Question 49

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eta

Question 50

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bakufu

Question 51

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ronin

Question 52

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Deshima Island/Nagasaki

Question 53

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woodblock prints

Question 54

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Edo and Kyoto

Question 55

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Basho

Question 56

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Oda Nobunaga

Question 57

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"Dutch learning"

Question 58

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Tokugawa Ieyasu/Tokugawa Shogunate and the "Great Peace"

Question 59

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han

Question 60

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fudai and tozama daimyo

Question 61

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 62

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 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Gia Long and the Nguyen dynasty

Question 64

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18^th-Century Population Explosion

Question 65

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chronmin

Question 66

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Japanese Fortress Palaces

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

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
yangban

Question 69

China's population

A)had a majority of females over males as so many of the latter died in China's many wars.
B)was about 400,000,000 in 1395.
C)was stagnant between 1600 and 1700.
D)grew fast during the 1600-1800 period,reaching over 300,000,000 by 1800.
E)declined between 1600 and 1800 because of a renewal of the bubonic plague.

Question 70

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

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

Question 71

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 72

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 73

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 ordered all missionaries and converts to conform to the official orthodoxy set forth in Europe.
D)the Chinese emperors sent young Chinese boys to be educated in Rome.
E)China declared war against the West.

Question 74

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 75

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.

Question 76

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 77

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
hangul

Question 78

The first major ruler of the Qing Dynasty was

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

Question 79

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 80

China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s because of all of the following except

A)relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule.
B)new crops had been introduced from the New World.
C)introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China.
D)the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
E)the central government's termination of legal abortions.