HIST1112: Chapter 21 Quiz 1

In 1549 the Franciscan missionary ___________ landed in Japan.

Francis Xavier

The _______ ceramicist Chojiro preferred highly rustic, rough-hewn earthenware designs with glazes that formed spontaneous designs when fired—the famous "raku" ware.

Japanese

Armillary spheres and a celestial globe were cast by Chinese artisans to the specifications of the ________ court mathematician Ferdinand Verbiest in the 1680s.

Jesuit

Chikamatsu Monzaemon's most famous play is based on a real incident, in which the daimyo of 47 samurai was killed by a political opponent, leaving them as _________—masterless.

Ronin

One of the richest glimpses into local Chinese society comes from Pu Songling's __________ Tales from a Chinese Studio.

Strange

China's population grew from its low of perhaps 60 million at the beginning of the Ming period to an estimated ________ million by 1600.

150

In Japan, the Gekokujo ("those below toppling those above") period of civil war erupted in 1467 and continued, on and off, until the ________.

1570s

The Manchu state was divided into eight major military and ethnic divisions, each represented by a distinctive ____________, and companies were formed of 300 fighters recruited from families represented by these means.

Banner

The _________ East India Company, having established its base at Calcutta in 1690, soon sought to expand its operations to China.

British

A wholescale massacre of Japanese _________ followed in the wake of a rebellion against the government in 1637-38.

Christians

After the Manchus captured Beijing, some Ming loyalists fled to the island of Taiwan, where they expelled the ________, who had established a trading base there.

Dutch

The huge commitment of Chinese troops against the forces of the Japanese leader Hideyoshi during his attempted invasion of ________ and China from 1592 to 1598 weakened the Ming dynasty and led to the rise of the Manchus.

Korea

By 1557, the Portuguese had wrested the first European colony from the Chinese at _________, and they held it until 1999

Macau

______ became a vital axis of world trade, with Chinese merchants exchanging spices and luxury goods such as porcelain there for Spanish silver from the Americas.

Manila

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced a woodblock print depicting Thirty-Six Views of _________ that also became famous in the West.

Mt. Fuji

After arriving in Beijing in 1715, Giuseppe Castiglione worked as a(n) ______________ for the emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong.

Painter

Jesuit missionaries were at times welcomed into China and Japan, but were ultimately rejected as "subversive" elements by the ____ and the Tokugawa.

Qing

According to the infamous "_______ edict" in 1645, all males, regardless of ethnicity, were required on pain of death to adopt the Manchu hairstyle of a shaved forehead and long pigtail in the back.

Queue

The _______ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region.

Tokugawa

The Qianlong emperor built a Tibetan version of the Buddhist stupa, or __________, for the visit of the Panchen Lama in 1779.

Reliquary