The World at 1750: The "East"

Question 1

What was not true about Manchus?

Answer 1

They rejected Confucian principles in favor of a Mongol-style tribal council

Question 2

What was not true about the Jesuit mission in China?

Answer 2

Jesuits attracted many converts, and Christianity became a popular religion

Question 3

In the view of Emperor Qianlong, the trade between China and England was?

Answer 3

unnecessary to China but a favor to England

Question 4

Ths isolationism of the Tokugawa government included?

Answer 4

forbidding Japanese from going abroad

Question 5

“Dutch learning” in Tokugawa Japan referred to?

Answer 5

the study of the Dutch language by a small number of Japanese scholars to gain knowledge of the outside world

Question 6

What was true about the Manchus?

Answer 6

they were nomads
they came from Manchuria
they established the Qing dynasty

Question 7

What was true about the Jesuit mission in China?

Answer 7

• Jesuits made an effort to learn Chinese and to understand Chinese culture
• used European science and technology to generate interest among the Chinese
• other catholic missionaries criticized claims that Christianity was the only true religion
• most Chinese were put off by the Christian’s claims that Christianity was the only religion

Question 8

What did the isolationism of Tokugawa government not include?

Answer 8

• encouraging limited contact with jesuit missionaries
• forbidding Chinese and Dutch merchants from trading at Nagasaki
• banning all foreign religions such as Confucianism and Buddhism