Chap 17 - East Asian Flashcards
Who was Zhenghe?
a. exiled emperor
b. eunuch admiral
c. ambassador
d. court philosopher
b.eunuch admiral
Yongle moved the Ming capital from Nanjing to
a. Canton
b. Yangtze
c. Macao
d. Beijing
d.Beijing
Which Catholic order was especially influential in China and Japan during the early modern era?
a. Dominicans
b. Franciscans
c. Jesuits
d. Benedictines
c.Jesuits
Who led the peasant revolt that overthrew the Ming dynasty?
a. Qianlong
b. Kangxi
c. Zhu Yuanzhang
d. Li Zicheng
d.Li Zicheng
The Manchu dynasty took the reign title of
a. Li
b. Ming
c. Han
d. Qing
d.Qing
The two greatest Qing emperors were
a. Hongwu and Yongle
b. Ch’ing and Li Zicheng
c. Kangxi and Qianlong
d. Yongzheng and Manchu
c.Kangxi and Qianlong
The Treaty of Nerchinsk was negotiated between China and
a. Mongolia
b. England
c. Burma
d. Russia
d.Russia
Who led the British trade mission of 1793 to China?
a. Lord Byron
b. Lord Macaulay
c. Lord Macartney
d. Matteo Ricci
c.Lord Macartney
Which of the following is an example of Ming popular fiction?
a. The Golden Lotus
b. The Forbidden City
c. Old Dame Liu
d. The Dream of Spring
a.The Golden Lotus
Who was NOT one of the three great unifiers of Japan?
a. Tokugawa Ieyasu
b. Oda Nobunaga
c. Hiroshige Tohaku
d. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
c.Hiroshige Tohaku
The unifiers of Japan sought to eliminate the power of the
a. samurai
b. emperor
c. shogunate
d. daimyo
d.daimyo
Who was the first Jesuit missionary to Japan?
a. Marco Polo
b. Francis Xavier
c. Giorgio Macans
d. Matteo Ricci
b.Francis Xavier
In 1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an edict prohibiting whose activities within his domains?
a. Christians
b. Europeans
c. merchants
d. Dutch traders
a.Christians
The sole Japanese port open to foreign trade after 1612 was
a. Edo
b. Osaka
c. Kyoto
d. Nagasaki
d.Nagasaki
During the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogun guaranteed daimyo loyalty by compelling daimyo lords to maintain
a. the tozama
b. three domains
c. two residences
d. the fudai
c.two residences
Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the samurai comprised which class?
a. aristocratic
b. lower
c. middle
d. priestly
a.aristocratic
The “floating world” referred to which area of Japanese culture?
a. woodblock printing
b. poetry
c. painting
d. entertainment
d.entertainment
Kabuki is a type of Japanese
a. theater
b. poetry
c. fiction
d. brothel
a.theater
In early modern Korea, members of the aristocratic class were known as the
a. chonmin
b. ie
c. yangban
d. hangul
c.yangban
Who is commonly considered the greatest of all Japanese poets?
a. Hiroshige
b. Tohaku
c. Basho
d. Hokusai
c.Basho
