Age of Exploration- China & Japan

Shogun

A general who ruled Japan in the emperor's name.

Haiku

A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

What did Prince Henry established that boosted Portugal's navigational advantage?

A navigation school with mapmakers, instrument makers, shipbuilders, scientists, and sea captains.

Daimyo

Became the new Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai and was a vassal of the shogun.

Ming Dynasty

Chinese dynasty that kicked out the Mongols and expanded the vassal states of China.

Manchus

Chinese dynasty that took control from the Ming and renamed themselves Qing.

Dutch East India Company

Dutch company that established and directed trade throughout Asia

Christopher Columbus

Italian navigator who sailed for Spain and ran into the Bahama islands, but thought they were India.

Kabuki

Japanese drama aimed at farmers, merchants, and other common everyday folk

Tokugawa Shogunate

Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to unify and isolate it from foreign influences

The expulsion of the Mongols, the rise of Neo-Confucianism, and the development of a large Chinese navy all occurred under which dynasty?

Ming dynasty

Set out to control all of China and the rebelling Daimyos by force after a crumbing Japanese feudal system left the country in chaos.

Nobunaga and Hideyoshi

What set in place China's unification and isolation?

The Chinese had finally driven out the Mongols and established the Ming Dynasty.

Why were the Dutch able to trade with the Chinese while other European countries were not?

The Dutch paid the tribute and KowTowed to Chinese Emperor.

Qing Dynasty

The last imperial dynasty of China, which was overthrown by revolutionaries

Why were Ming dynasty rulers uninterested in expanding trade with European cultures?

They believed that European goods were inferior to Chinese goods.

How did the Japanese feel about the European missionaries?

They scorned traditional Japanese beliefs. Eventually led to the expulsion and persecusion of Christianity in Japan

Offending their Confucian beliefs and China favoring agriculture and the low taxes on agriculture kept China from....

becoming highly industrialized, therefore not progressing.

Ultimately, Ming dynasty rulers responded to contact with European cultures by —

isolating the nation and prohibiting most contact with Europeans.

How long did Japan isolate themselves from European trade and influence?

more than 200 years. No ideas came in, no ideas came out.