Chapter 17

It is accurate to say that...

American crops such as peanuts and maize were introduced into China in the Qing Dynasty.

During the Tokugawa period...

cotton became the dominant textile fabric worn by most Japanese.

Korea...

developed a phonetic alphabet for writing the spoken Korean language in the 1400s.

Qianlong...

fell under the influence of corrupt court elements.

Saikaku was a major Japanese novelist who wrote about...

five women ready to die for love.

China's population...

grew fast during the 1600-1800 period, reaching over 300,000,000 by 1800.

The separate territories of the Tokugawa Shogunate were known as...

han.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi expelled Christian missionaries from Japan in 1587 because they were...

interfering in local Japanese political matters.

"Gold Vase Plum"...

is two centuries ahead of the earliest European examples of a realistic social novel.

All of the following are correct about Vietnam in the 17th and 18th centuries except...

its population remained homogenous.

By the 18th-century, _______ had replaced _______ as the cloth of choice for most Japanese.

cotton and hemp

The work that is considered to be China's most distinguished popular novel is...

"The Dream of the Red Chamber."

By the mid-eighteenth century, Edo was one of the world's largest cities, with a population of...

1,000,000.

In order to enhance its authority over the general population including the peasants, the Tokugawa Shogunate relied upon...

Confucian maxims.

The most outstanding example of early modern Chinese architecture is the...

Forbidden City in Beijing.

The first Jesuit missionary to arrive in Japan was...

Francis Xavier.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was able to accomplish all of the following except...

Gain control of Korea.

Which of the following is accurate regarding of the effects of Qianlong's trade policy with England?

It set the stage for a future of harmonious trade relations between the two powers.

During the "Great Peace" of the Tokugawa Shogunate, all occurred except...

Japan opened its borders to the west in the 17th-century

This Qing Dynasty emperor was arguably the greatest ruler in Chinese history...

Kangxi

The Sacred Edict delineating proper Confucian behavior was issued by...

Kangxi.

The peasant revolt that brought down the preoccupied Ming Dynasty and precipitated the ascension to control of the Manchus was led by...

Li Zicheng.

The Tokugawa shoguns exerted control over 'daimyo' by...

compelling 'daimyo' to maintain two residences, one in their own domain and one in Edo.

The Portuguese base of operations in China, granted when they arrived in China, was the territory of...

Macao.

In comparing Mongol and Manchu rule in China, it can be accurately stated that the...

Manchus were more successful than the Mongols.

The boundary dispute between the Russian tsar and the Qing was settled by the Treaty of...

Nerchinsk.

The Japanese who seized Kyoto and spent his last years trying to consolidate his rule was...

Oda Nobunaga.

The first European sea-faring nation desiring to trade with China and who arrived in 1514 was...

Portugal.

The name of the Chinese dynasty established by the Manchus was the...

Qing.

China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s because for all of the following except...

The central governments termination of legal abortions.

The rule of the Qing was weakened by the...

corrupt behavior of Heshen.

The most powerful and lengthiest of all Japanese shogunates was begun by...

Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The modern-day name for the capital city of the Tokugawa Shogunate is...

Tokyo.

As a result of the King Sojo of Korea refusing an alliance, _______ invaded the Korean Peninsula in 1592...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Concerning the role of women in traditional China, which of the following is not true?

Women were prohibited, on penalty of death, from studying the Confucian classics.

The purpose of the Qing system known as dyarchy was...

a mechanism for the sharing of administrative positions by Manchus and Chinese.

In their attempt to follow tradition, the Tokugawa ruled through a coalition of 'daimyo' and a council of elders called...

bakufu.

The primary fighting force of Qing China was the...

bannermen.

Probably the best-known artistic achievements of the Ming era were the famous...

blue-and-white porcelain objects.

In Qing China,...

love was seen as a problem because it diverted a couple from their duties to a larger family.

Unemployed samurai were known as...

ronin.

Government under the Qing Dynasty...

saw compromises made in the civil service examination system as positions were increasingly assigned to candidates who purchased their degrees.

The Ming Dynasty...

sent a fleet far into the Indian Ocean.

The Treaty of Nerchinsk...

settled the location of the Sino-Russian boundary.

In Korea,...

some aristocratic 'yangban' became merchants, or even peasants, over time.

As a result of the controversy over the policy of Jesuit missionaries accommodating Chinese religious beliefs in order to facilitate conversion to Christianity...

the Pope forbade the practice of ancestor worship.

As manufacturing and commerce began to grow in Ming and Qing China...

the social elite retained a preference for agriculture.

All of the following were part of Japan's "Dutch learning" except...

theology.

Basho...

was intrigued by the search for the meaning of existence.