Asia During European Expansion

Question 1

Only what could break into Indian Ocean trade system

Answer 1

Military force

Question 2

Europeans were mad because Asia was

Answer 2

Already Muslim and already trading

Question 3

Asian sea trading

Answer 3

3 zones

Question 4

Arab zones

Answer 4

Raw material

Question 5

India zone

Answer 5

Cotton textiles

Question 6

China zone

Answer 6

Paper porcelain and silks

Question 7

Europeans took 3 crucial trade points

Answer 7

Mouths of Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Straits of Malacca (Dutch)

Question 8

Who controls Asian trade

Answer 8

No central control

Question 9

Europeans had a lack of what

Answer 9

Trading goods

Question 10

Ormuz and Goa

Answer 10

Portuguese factory/fortified trading town; forcible entry into Asian sea trade network

Question 11

Factories

Answer 11

European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; assured secure landing places and commerce

Question 12

Portugal couldn’t sustain what

Answer 12

Monopoly on trade

Question 13

Asia wanted what from Europe

Answer 13

Silver

Question 14

Portugal took what that was their downfall

Answer 14

To big of area

Question 15

Who took over Portuguese trade in Asia

Answer 15

Dutch

Question 16

Batavia

Answer 16

Dutch fortress on island of Java

Question 17

English in

Answer 17

India

Question 18

Dutch had monopoly on what

Answer 18

Spice trade; limited goods; Indonesia

Question 19

Inland territory to Europeans

Answer 19

Couldn’t conquer

Question 20

Luzon

Answer 20

N island in Philippines that Spain conquered and converted

Question 21

Mindanao

Answer 21

S island of Philippines; Muslim kingdom so Spain couldn’t conquer

Question 22

Most important spice

Answer 22

Cinnamon

Question 23

Francis Xavier

Answer 23

Spanish Jesuit
Tried to convert low caste
Little headway with elites

Question 24

Robert Di Nobili

Answer 24

Italian Jesuit
Tried to convert elites
Mission eventually failed

Question 25

Christianity was a great success where

Answer 25

N Philippines but blended

Question 26

Hongwu

Answer 26

Also known as Zhu Yuanzhang; founder of Ming; originally a peasant; drive out Mongols to N of Great Wall; Abolished chief minister; improved lives of peasants; limits eunuchs power

Question 27

Role of civil service exam

Answer 27

Big role in determining status

Question 28

Punishment for corrupt bureaucrats

Answer 28

Public beatings

Question 29

Where could emperors wives only come from

Answer 29

Humble families

Question 30

Who didn't have many rights

Answer 30

Women and students

Question 31

Imported crops

Answer 31

From America

Question 32

Macao and canton

Answer 32

2 ports Europeans were allowed to trade at in China

Question 33

What did merchants do with their money

Answer 33

Bought land instead of putting it back into trade

Question 34

Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall

Answer 34

Jesuit scholars in Ming court | Won few converts to Christianity

Question 35

Help to peasants

Answer 35

Tax free land worked Lowered forced labor Promoted cottage industries

Question 36

What goes away and what becomes important in regards to currency

Answer 36

Paper money | Silver

Question 37

Ming dynasty culture

Answer 37

Patrons to arts

Question 38

Woodblock printing

Answer 38

Made it easier to make novels

Question 39

Emperor Yungle

Answer 39

2nd Ming emperor

Question 40

Spent money to stop who

Answer 40

Nomads

Question 41

Nobunago

Answer 41

Daimyo; use of firearms; disposes of ashikaga shogunate; killed; protects Jesuits to counter Buddhist power

Question 42

Tokugawa Leyasu

Answer 42

Emerges victorious, appointed shogun, Edo (Tokyo), restoration of unity, neoconfucian revival replaced by national learning school

Question 43

Tokugawa shogunate ruled for how long

Answer 43

250 years

Question 44

Europeans traded what for what in Japan

Answer 44

Firearms and clock presses | Silver copper and finished goods

Question 45

Europeans relationship with China and Japan

Answer 45

Middle men

Question 46

Hideyoshi

Answer 46

Next shogun; less tolerant; Buddhist now weak and Christians were threat

Question 47

Afraid of what

Answer 47

European take over

Question 48

Closed ports to who

Answer 48

Europeans except Dutch at Nagasaki

Question 49

Caravel

Answer 49

Slender long-hulled vessels utilized by Portuguese