AP World History Chapter 26 – Flashcards
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Great wall of china
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A system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 mi. (3220 km) long.
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Qing Dynasty
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(1644-1911 CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled by the Manchu people: began to isolate themselves from Western culture,
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Kangxi
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Qing emperor (r. 1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.
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Son of Heaven
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Title of the ruler of China, first known as the Zhou dynasty; it acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth
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Scholar-gentry
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Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China.
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Fillial Piety
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children's respect for their parents and older relatives, an important part of Confucian beliefs.
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Foot binding
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Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household
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Macau & Guangzhou
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Chinese brothers who ruled china in the Qing Dynasty
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Neo-Confuianism
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correspondences between human virtue and the ultimate nature of things
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Zhu Xi
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(1130-1200) Most prominent of neo-Confucian scholars during the Song dynasty in China; stressed importance of applying philosophical principles to everyday life and action
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Matteo Ricci
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An Italian Jesuit who by his knowledge of Astronomy and science was accepted as a missionary of China
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The True Meaning Of the Lord of Heaven
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doctrines of confucius and jesus were very similiar by ricci
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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(1603-1867) Feudal Warlord rulers of Japan. Responisble for closing Japan off from the rest of the world. Overthrown during the Meiji Restoration.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa Shogunate; established political unity in Japan
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Bakufu
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Military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai
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Daimyo
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A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai
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Edo
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(now named Tokyo) the location of the new leaders; the capital was moved from Kyoto to Edo
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Native Learning
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Japanese movement to promote nativist intellectual traditions and the celebration of Japanese texts.
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Floating worlds
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Centers of Tokugawa urban culture; called ukiyo; where entertainment and pleasure quarters housed teahouses, theaters, brothels, and public baths to offer escape from social responsibilities and the rigid rules of conduct that governed public behavior.
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Francis Xavier
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This was a man who helped Ignatius of Loyola to start the Jesuits. He also was famous for his number of missionaries he went on to promote Christianity
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Dutch Learning
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Western learning embraced by some Japanese in the eighteenth century
