Ming China Flashcards
In Ming-Qing times government was characterized by an increasingly well-funded and extensive
Bureaucracy
The Chinese response to Jesuit priests who attempted to introduce science into their societies was general
Indifference
Confucianism in Imperial China advocated the idea that the state is identified with the
Family writ large
The Thin horse market shows that the Chinese viewed ______ as commodities to be bought and sold
Women
The Qing policy of ______ refers to the appointment of one Chinese and one Manchu to each key post in the central government
Dyarchy
By the 19 century, the most highly commercialize nonindustrial society in the world was that of
China
The Manchus succeeded the
Ming Dynasty
The main fighting force of the Manchus was the
Banner men
The mandarins were powerful
Bureaucrats
The chief threat to the Ming Dynasty came from the
Mongols
For poor peasant household, after about harvesting faced with high taxes, the sale of a ____ often seems preferable to the sale of ancestral land
Daughter
Most girls in the Ming and Qing china were subjected to the cruel and deep formative procedure of
Foot binding
The ‘mouse that swallowed the elephant’ refers to _____ control China
Manchus
The Manchu founded the _____ Dynasty
Qing
In his edict to King George III of England, the Chinese emperor Qianlong justified restrictions on trade with England by emphasizing Chinese
Self-sufficiency
As a sign of submission to the Manchus, Chinese had to wear their hair in
A queue
The boundary dispute between the Russian tsar and the Qing was settled by the Treaty of
Nerchinsk
The Manchu dynasty in 18th-century benefited from the long confident rains of the emperors _____ and _____
Qinglong and Kangxi
In 1793 the British government sent the _______ mission to China to negotiate the opening of Ports among other issues
McCartney
Glasford empires of the Islamic world where the____ , centered in Turkey, the ____, centered in Persia, and the ____, centered in India
Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals
From the Balkan peninsula, Ottoman controlled extended Northwest as far as the _____ river
Danube
Suleyman the magnificent and his Ottoman armies laid siege to the city of _____ from 1526 to 1529
Vienna
The successful expansion of the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on the size and loyalty of its
Military
In 1389 the Ottomans defeated the Serbs at the battle of
Kosovo
The Ottoman Sultan ______ captured Constantinople
Mehmed II
Muslim religious law is called
Sharia
Where the elite fighting force of the Ottoman Empire
Janissaries
Ottoman sultans insured stability of succession by the practice of
Fratricide
In the 16th century Ottoman Empire, the ulama became a branch of the _____ under single religious authority
Government
The ulama fell under a single religious authority, the ____ _____
Grand Mufti
The primary function of the ____ under the Ottoman Empire was to take full responsibility for the well-being of each member of their religious community
Millets
The Ottoman sultans chief minister was called a
Grand Vizter
To sustain the quality of slave troops, the Ottomans developed a unique institution: the provincial slave Levy, or
Devshirme
Contemporaries of Solomon I include king ____ of England, king ____ of France, and King _____ of Spain
Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V
Safavids belonged to the ____ sect of Islam
Shi’ite
The Safavids had begun in the 14th century as hereditary turkey spiritual leaders of the Sunni ____ order, in the Northwest Iranian provence of Azerbaijan
Sufi
The Safavid Sufi, ____ extended his sovereignty of the southern Caucasus, Azerbaijan, the Tigers Euphrates Valley, and all of Western Iran by 1506
Iismail
In the long run, the most impressive aspect of Safavid was the cultural and intellectual ____ that Iran enjoyed in the 16th and 17th centuries
Renaissance
Babur was the founder of the ____ dynasty in India
Mughal
Akbar’s contemporary on the throne of England was
Elizabeth I
The Mughal ruler _____ developed his divine faith which was one example of the great religious toleration of his regime
Akbar
The predominant religion in Mughal India was
Islam
The son of Shah Jahan, Who killed his brother, imprisoned his father, and then assumed the throne himself, was
Awrangzeb
Awrangzeb’s persecution of non-Muslims would contribute to the _____ rebellion
Marathas
The two predominant sects of Islam are ____ and ____
Sunni and Shi’ite
The growing domination of the world seas and continents by _____ allowed them to contain or to bypass major Islamic Lands, contributing to the decline of the Islamic empires
Europeans
The first Jesuit to be granted and audience with the Ming emperor was
Matteo Ricci
The importance of the Treaty of Nerchinsk was
China had to treat the Russians as equals
Which statement is the most accurate concerning the Qing dynasty
They maintained a considerable amount of continuity with the Ming
The peasant revolt that brought down the Ming Dynasty was led by
Li Zicheng
Which best describes the course main China followed after the death of Emperor Yong-Lo
China to return to its policy of isolation
The best-known artistic achievements of the Ming era were the famous
Blue and white porcelain objects
The Qing’s first formal diplomatic relations with the European power was with
Russians
The dispute between Jesuits and Dominicans and China over the policy of accommodating the Chinese tradition of ancestor worship is known as
The Rites Controversy
What was the Confucian view of society
Patriarchal
The Great Wall of China primarily was a defense against what people
Mongols
What were the benefits of the tribute system to those states willing to participate in it
Participation in the Ming dynasty nobility
What is generally considered China’s greatest novel?
The dream of the red chamber
