Chpt 16 Timeline - Asian Transitions

Question 1

1368

Answer 1

Ming dynasty comes to power in China

Question 2

1368-1398

Answer 2

Reign of the Hongwu emperor

Question 3

1390

Answer 3

Ming restrictions on overseas commerce

Question 4

1403-1424

Answer 4

Reign of the Yongle emperor in China

Question 5

1405-1433

Answer 5

Zheng He expeditions from China to Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa

Question 6

1498-1499

Answer 6

Vasco da Gama opens the sea route around Africa to Asia

Question 7

1507

Answer 7

Portuguese defeat combined Muslim war fleet near Diu off Western India

Question 8

1510

Answer 8

Portuguese conquest of Goa in Western India

Question 9

1511

Answer 9

Portuguese conquer Malacca on the tip of Malayan peninsula

Question 10

1540s

Answer 10

Francis Xavier makes mass converts in India

Question 11

1573

Answer 11

Eng of the Ashikaga shogunate

Question 12

1573-1620

Answer 12

Reign of the Wanli emperor

Question 13

1580s

Answer 13

Jesuits arrive in China

Question 14

1590

Answer 14

Hideyoshi unifies Japan

Question 15

1592

Answer 15

First Japanese invasion of Korea

Question 16

1597

Answer 16

Second Japanese invasion of Korea

Question 17

1600s

Answer 17

Dutch and British assault on Portuguese Empire in Asia; decline of Portuguese power

Question 18

1603

Answer 18

Tokugawa shogunate established

Question 19

1614

Answer 19

Christianity banned in Japan

Question 20

1619-1620

Answer 20

Dutch East India Company established at Batavia on Java

Question 21

1640s

Answer 21

Japan moves into self-imposed isolation

Question 22

1641

Answer 22

Dutch capture Malacca from Portuguese; Dutch confined to Deshima Island off Nagasaki

Question 23

1644

Answer 23

End of the Ming dynasty; Manchu Qing dynasty rules CHina

Question 24

1662-1722

Answer 24

Reign of the Kangxi emperor in China

Question 25

1755-1757

Answer 25

Dutch become paramount power on Java; Qing conquest of Mongolia