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Confucianism

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ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

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Manchus

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descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

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queque

answer

a braided ponytail that China men had to wear

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Sacred Edict

answer

proclaimed to the entire Chinese empire the importance of the moral values established by the master

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dyarchy

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all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

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colloquial style

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new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

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Tokugawa

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an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

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Zhu Yanzhang

answer

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

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Li Zicheng

answer

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

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Emperor Kangxi

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Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

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White Lotus Rebellion

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Discontented peasants who ahd recently been settled on infertile land launched this revolt in central China

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Kowtow

answer

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

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Utamaro-senpai

answer

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

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Gun powder empire

answer

a empire formed by outside conquerers who united the regions that they conquered through their mastery of fire arms., Term explains the rise of empires in the Islamic world. A "gunpowder empire" was a new, large-scale empire that relied heavily on firearms. It's usually applied to the Ottoman Empire. This was a change from the Mongol Empire which conquered on horseback using swords and torches; formed by outside conquerors

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Five Pillars of Wisodm

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There are "five pillars of Islam" ( arkan al-din ): 1) confession of faith ( the shahada ) by declaring, "There is only one God and that God is Allah and Mohammed is His prophet." 2) praying five times a day ( salat ) 3) giving of alms to the poor ( zakat ); 4) fasting during the month of Ramadan (sawm ), and 5) making the pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj )

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polyglot

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speaking several languages

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Act of Seclusion

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this was an act passed by the Japanese and it was made to keep the Christians away from the Japanese and to protect the shogun. The Spanish and Portuguese would have gone along with it.

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ethnocentrism

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tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups

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sankin-kotai

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attendance by turn - each daimyo had to travel to Edo

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metsuke

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group of officials who toured Japan and reported on possible uprisings or plots against the shogun

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Oda Nobunaga

answer

japanese lord who seized the imperial capital kyoto in 1568 and sought to rule the empire by force

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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The predecessor of Tokugawa; succeeded Nobunaga Oda and laid the foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate

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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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Ming Dynasty

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the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644;, A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

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Qing Dynasty

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the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during this dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu

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Three Gorges Dam

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A dam built across the Yangtze River that displaced over 1.5 million people during its construction. It is one of the largest dams in the world

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Great Wall of China

answer

A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.

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Mandate of Heaven

answer

a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

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Zheng He

answer

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

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canton

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a small administrative division of a country

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hierarchy

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government by ecclesiastical rulers

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Confucianism

answer

ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

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Little Ice Age

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a time period that had weather that was similar to that of an Ice Age that ruined crops in China in the early seventeenth century

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Manchus

answer

descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

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Sacred Edict

answer

proclaimed to the entire Chinese empire the importance of the moral values established by the master

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Bannermen

answer

primary fighting force of the empire

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dyarchy

answer

all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

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lineage

answer

a clan that was extended kinship until consisting of dozens or even hundreds of join and nuclear families linked together by a clan council of eldery and a variety of other common social and religious functions

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colloquial style

answer

new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

question

daimyo

answer

great lords of Japan

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Tokugawa

answer

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

question

sword hunts

answer

an act that Hideyoshi-sama carried out to disarm the population and attracting samurai to their service in Japan

question

bakuka

answer

a composing ruiling of a coalition of daimyo and a council of elders

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sake

answer

Japanese rice wine

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ronin

answer

unemployed samurai, later forced to take their own lives

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ie

answer

nuclear family as the basic unit in Japanese society

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Kabaki

answer

classical drama with a new emphasis on violence, music, and dramatic gestures

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yangban

answer

aristocratic class in Korea

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Khubilai Khan

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Great Mongol ruler, who's reing was over Beijing. Overthrown in 1368 by a massive peasant rebellion

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Emper Yongle

answer

Emperor that strengthened the Great Wall and pacified the nomadic tribes people who had troubled China in previous centuries

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Zhu Yanzhang

answer

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

question

Emperor Jianwen

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Predecessor of Yongle's; escaped to Southeast Asia to live in exile

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Li Zicheng

answer

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

question

Emperor Kangxi

answer

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

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Yongzheng

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one of Emperor Kangxi's successors

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Qianlong

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one of Emperor Kangxi's successors; was known for his diligence, tolerance, and intellectual curiosity, and he too combined viorious military action against the unruly tribes along the frontiuer with active efforts to promote economic propsperity, administrative efficieny, and scholarship and artistic excellence.

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Heshen

answer

Manch official, known for being very corrupt

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Kowtow

answer

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

question

Nobunaga Oda-sama

answer

One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a samurai and a military commander under the Ashikaga shoguante. Attempted to consolidate his rule throughout the central plains by defeating his rivals and suppressing the power of the Buddhist estates, but he was killed by one of his genreals in 1582 before the process was complete

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Hideyoshi Toyotomi-sama

answer

Suceeded Oda-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a farmer, who had worked his way up within the ranks to become a military commander. Originally lacking a family name of his own, he eventually adoped the name Toyotomi ("abundant provider") to embellish his reputation for improving the material standards of his domain

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Ieyasu Tokogawa-sama

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Suceeded Hideyoshi-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. He was the powerful daimyo of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), moved to fill the vaccum. Neither Hideyoshi-sama nor Nobunaga-sama had claimed the title of shogun, but Ieyasu-sama named himself shogun in 1603, initiating the most powerful and long-lasting of all Japanese shogunates

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Nagasaki

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Center of Christian Japanese and it's harbor was a small Dutch community were they were permitted to engage in limited trade with Japan

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Han

answer

The divided states, separated into territories

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Fudai

answer

First type of daimyo, who were mostly small daimyo directly supordinate to the shogunate

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Tozama

answer

Second type of daimyo, who were larger and more independent lords usually more distant from the center of shogunate power in Edo

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Saikaku-senpai

answer

Considered to be one of Japan's greatest novelists. Saikaku-senpai's greatest novel, Five Women Who Loved Love, relates to the amorous exploits of five women of there merchant class. In addition to heterosexual novwels for the merchant class, Saikaku-senpai wrote of homosexual liaisions among the samurai

question

Basho-senpai

answer

Seventeenth century grand Japanese poet. He was concerned with the search for the meaning of existence and the poetic expression of his experience. His genius lies in his sudden juxtaposition of a genral or eternal conditions with an immediate perception, an elecrical spark that instantly reveals a moment of truth

question

Utamaro-senpai

answer

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

question

Hokusai-senpai

answer

Was famour for Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which created a new and bold interpretation of the Japanese landscape

question

Hiroshige-senpai

answer

Developed the genre of the travelogue print in his Fifty-Three Stages of the tokaido Highway, which presented ordinary scenes of daily life, both in the country and in the cities, all eveloped in a lyrical, quiet mood.

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Ming

answer

Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished, Border Policy was good, but not well enough enforced, as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.

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Jesuits

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Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.

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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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Manchu

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the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries

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Qing

answer

Manchu dynasty that seized control of China in mid-17th century after decline of Ming; forced submission of nomadic peoples far to the west and compelled tribute from Vietnam and Burma to the south

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Kangxi

answer

Qing emperor (r. 1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.

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Qianlong

answer

expanded China's borders, 1736-1796, stopped Mongol invasions and had dual government positions for Chinese and Manchu's

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Banners

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military organization used by Manchu tribes

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Diarchy

answer

a form of government having two joint rulers

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Chen Shu

answer

chinese woman artist

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

answer

This man established a shogunate that would dominate Japan for hundreds of years

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Daimyo

answer

a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai

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Edo

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the capital and largest city of Japan

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Francis Xavier

answer

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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Bakufu

answer

Military-style government of the Japanese shogun

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Shogun

answer

a hereditary military dictator of Japan

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Samurai

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a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy

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Ronin

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samurai who had lost their daimyo and were forced to wander until another master would accept their services

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Saikaku

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Was considered one of Japans's best writters, Wrote Five Women who loved love

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Kabuki

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A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan(Played by all male actors)

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Basho

answer

greatest Chinese poet

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Manchus

answer

descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

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Tokugawa

answer

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

question

Zhu Yanzhang

answer

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

question

Li Zicheng

answer

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

question

Emperor Kangxi

answer

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

question

Kowtow

answer

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

question

Act of Seclusion

answer

this was an act passed by the Japanese and it was made to keep the Christians away from the Japanese and to protect the shogun. The Spanish and Portuguese would have gone along with it.

question

ethnocentrism

answer

tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups

question

Oda Nobunaga

answer

japanese lord who seized the imperial capital kyoto in 1568 and sought to rule the empire by force

question

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

answer

The predecessor of Tokugawa; succeeded Nobunaga Oda and laid the foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate

question

Tokugawa Ieyasu

answer

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

question

Ming Dynasty

answer

the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644;, A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

question

Qing Dynasty

answer

the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during this dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu

question

Three Gorges Dam

answer

A dam built across the Yangtze River that displaced over 1.5 million people during its construction. It is one of the largest dams in the world

question

Great Wall of China

answer

A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.

question

Mandate of Heaven

answer

a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

question

Zheng He

answer

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

question

canton

answer

a small administrative division of a country

question

hierarchy

answer

government by ecclesiastical rulers

question

Confucianism

answer

ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

question

dyarchy

answer

all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

question

lineage

answer

a clan that was extended kinship until consisting of dozens or even hundreds of join and nuclear families linked together by a clan council of eldery and a variety of other common social and religious functions

question

colloquial style

answer

new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

question

daimyo

answer

great lords of Japan

question

Tokugawa

answer

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

question

sword hunts

answer

an act that Hideyoshi-sama carried out to disarm the population and attracting samurai to their service in Japan

question

bakuka

answer

a composing ruiling of a coalition of daimyo and a council of elders

question

sake

answer

Japanese rice wine

question

ie

answer

nuclear family as the basic unit in Japanese society

question

Kabaki

answer

classical drama with a new emphasis on violence, music, and dramatic gestures

question

yangban

answer

aristocratic class in Korea

question

Khubilai Khan

answer

Great Mongol ruler, who's reing was over Beijing. Overthrown in 1368 by a massive peasant rebellion

question

Emper Yongle

answer

Emperor that strengthened the Great Wall and pacified the nomadic tribes people who had troubled China in previous centuries

question

Zhu Yanzhang

answer

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

question

Emperor Jianwen

answer

Predecessor of Yongle's; escaped to Southeast Asia to live in exile

question

Li Zicheng

answer

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

question

Emperor Kangxi

answer

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

question

Yongzheng

answer

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors

question

Qianlong

answer

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors; was known for his diligence, tolerance, and intellectual curiosity, and he too combined viorious military action against the unruly tribes along the frontiuer with active efforts to promote economic propsperity, administrative efficieny, and scholarship and artistic excellence.

question

Heshen

answer

Manch official, known for being very corrupt

question

Kowtow

answer

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

question

Nobunaga Oda-sama

answer

One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a samurai and a military commander under the Ashikaga shoguante. Attempted to consolidate his rule throughout the central plains by defeating his rivals and suppressing the power of the Buddhist estates, but he was killed by one of his genreals in 1582 before the process was complete

question

Hideyoshi Toyotomi-sama

answer

Suceeded Oda-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a farmer, who had worked his way up within the ranks to become a military commander. Originally lacking a family name of his own, he eventually adoped the name Toyotomi ("abundant provider") to embellish his reputation for improving the material standards of his domain

question

Ieyasu Tokogawa-sama

answer

Suceeded Hideyoshi-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. He was the powerful daimyo of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), moved to fill the vaccum. Neither Hideyoshi-sama nor Nobunaga-sama had claimed the title of shogun, but Ieyasu-sama named himself shogun in 1603, initiating the most powerful and long-lasting of all Japanese shogunates

question

Nagasaki

answer

Center of Christian Japanese and it's harbor was a small Dutch community were they were permitted to engage in limited trade with Japan

question

Han

answer

The divided states, separated into territories

question

Fudai

answer

First type of daimyo, who were mostly small daimyo directly supordinate to the shogunate

question

Tozama

answer

Second type of daimyo, who were larger and more independent lords usually more distant from the center of shogunate power in Edo

question

Saikaku-senpai

answer

Considered to be one of Japan's greatest novelists. Saikaku-senpai's greatest novel, Five Women Who Loved Love, relates to the amorous exploits of five women of there merchant class. In addition to heterosexual novwels for the merchant class, Saikaku-senpai wrote of homosexual liaisions among the samurai

question

Basho-senpai

answer

Seventeenth century grand Japanese poet. He was concerned with the search for the meaning of existence and the poetic expression of his experience. His genius lies in his sudden juxtaposition of a genral or eternal conditions with an immediate perception, an elecrical spark that instantly reveals a moment of truth

question

Utamaro-senpai

answer

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

question

Hokusai-senpai

answer

Was famour for Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which created a new and bold interpretation of the Japanese landscape

question

Hiroshige-senpai

answer

Developed the genre of the travelogue print in his Fifty-Three Stages of the tokaido Highway, which presented ordinary scenes of daily life, both in the country and in the cities, all eveloped in a lyrical, quiet mood.

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