Chapter 17 (Ming/Qing China, Tokugawa Japan)

ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

a braided ponytail that China men had to wear

proclaimed to the entire Chinese empire the importance of the moral values established by the master

all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

Discontented peasants who ahd recently been settled on infertile land launched this revolt in central China

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

a empire formed by outside conquerers who united the regions that they conquered through their mastery of fire arms., Term explains the rise of empires in the Islamic world. A "gunpowder empire" was a new, large-scale empire that relied heavily on firearms. It's usually applied to the Ottoman Empire. This was a change from the Mongol Empire which conquered on horseback using swords and torches; formed by outside conquerors

There are "five pillars of Islam" ( arkan al-din ): 1) confession of faith ( the shahada ) by declaring, "There is only one God and that God is Allah and Mohammed is His prophet." 2) praying five times a day ( salat ) 3) giving of alms to the poor ( zakat ); 4) fasting during the month of Ramadan (sawm ), and 5) making the pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj )

speaking several languages

this was an act passed by the Japanese and it was made to keep the Christians away from the Japanese and to protect the shogun. The Spanish and Portuguese would have gone along with it.

tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups

attendance by turn - each daimyo had to travel to Edo

group of officials who toured Japan and reported on possible uprisings or plots against the shogun

japanese lord who seized the imperial capital kyoto in 1568 and sought to rule the empire by force

The predecessor of Tokugawa; succeeded Nobunaga Oda and laid the foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate

Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa Shogunate; established political unity in Japan

the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644;, A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during this dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu

A dam built across the Yangtze River that displaced over 1.5 million people during its construction. It is one of the largest dams in the world

A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.

a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

a small administrative division of a country

government by ecclesiastical rulers

ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

a time period that had weather that was similar to that of an Ice Age that ruined crops in China in the early seventeenth century

descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

proclaimed to the entire Chinese empire the importance of the moral values established by the master

primary fighting force of the empire

all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

a clan that was extended kinship until consisting of dozens or even hundreds of join and nuclear families linked together by a clan council of eldery and a variety of other common social and religious functions

new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

great lords of Japan

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

an act that Hideyoshi-sama carried out to disarm the population and attracting samurai to their service in Japan

a composing ruiling of a coalition of daimyo and a council of elders

Japanese rice wine

unemployed samurai, later forced to take their own lives

nuclear family as the basic unit in Japanese society

classical drama with a new emphasis on violence, music, and dramatic gestures

aristocratic class in Korea

Great Mongol ruler, who's reing was over Beijing. Overthrown in 1368 by a massive peasant rebellion

Emperor that strengthened the Great Wall and pacified the nomadic tribes people who had troubled China in previous centuries

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

Predecessor of Yongle's; escaped to Southeast Asia to live in exile

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors; was known for his diligence, tolerance, and intellectual curiosity, and he too combined viorious military action against the unruly tribes along the frontiuer with active efforts to promote economic propsperity, administrative efficieny, and scholarship and artistic excellence.

Manch official, known for being very corrupt

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a samurai and a military commander under the Ashikaga shoguante. Attempted to consolidate his rule throughout the central plains by defeating his rivals and suppressing the power of the Buddhist estates, but he was killed by one of his genreals in 1582 before the process was complete

Suceeded Oda-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a farmer, who had worked his way up within the ranks to become a military commander. Originally lacking a family name of his own, he eventually adoped the name Toyotomi ("abundant provider") to embellish his reputation for improving the material standards of his domain

Suceeded Hideyoshi-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. He was the powerful daimyo of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), moved to fill the vaccum. Neither Hideyoshi-sama nor Nobunaga-sama had claimed the title of shogun, but Ieyasu-sama named himself shogun in 1603, initiating the most powerful and long-lasting of all Japanese shogunates

Center of Christian Japanese and it's harbor was a small Dutch community were they were permitted to engage in limited trade with Japan

The divided states, separated into territories

First type of daimyo, who were mostly small daimyo directly supordinate to the shogunate

Second type of daimyo, who were larger and more independent lords usually more distant from the center of shogunate power in Edo

Considered to be one of Japan's greatest novelists. Saikaku-senpai's greatest novel, Five Women Who Loved Love, relates to the amorous exploits of five women of there merchant class. In addition to heterosexual novwels for the merchant class, Saikaku-senpai wrote of homosexual liaisions among the samurai

Seventeenth century grand Japanese poet. He was concerned with the search for the meaning of existence and the poetic expression of his experience. His genius lies in his sudden juxtaposition of a genral or eternal conditions with an immediate perception, an elecrical spark that instantly reveals a moment of truth

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

Was famour for Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which created a new and bold interpretation of the Japanese landscape

Developed the genre of the travelogue print in his Fifty-Three Stages of the tokaido Highway, which presented ordinary scenes of daily life, both in the country and in the cities, all eveloped in a lyrical, quiet mood.

Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished, Border Policy was good, but not well enough enforced, as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644.

Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.

An Italian Jesuit who by his knowledge of Astronomy and science was accepted as a missionary of China

the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries

Manchu dynasty that seized control of China in mid-17th century after decline of Ming; forced submission of nomadic peoples far to the west and compelled tribute from Vietnam and Burma to the south

Qing emperor (r. 1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.

expanded China's borders, 1736-1796, stopped Mongol invasions and had dual government positions for Chinese and Manchu's

military organization used by Manchu tribes

a form of government having two joint rulers

chinese woman artist

This man established a shogunate that would dominate Japan for hundreds of years

a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai

the capital and largest city of Japan

This was a man who helped Ignatius of Loyola to start the Jesuits. He also was famous for his number of missionaries he went on to promote Christianity

Military-style government of the Japanese shogun

a hereditary military dictator of Japan

a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy

samurai who had lost their daimyo and were forced to wander until another master would accept their services

Was considered one of Japans's best writters, Wrote Five Women who loved love

A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan(Played by all male actors)

greatest Chinese poet

descendants of peoples who had briefly established a kingdom in Northern China during the early eighteenth century

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

this was an act passed by the Japanese and it was made to keep the Christians away from the Japanese and to protect the shogun. The Spanish and Portuguese would have gone along with it.

tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups

japanese lord who seized the imperial capital kyoto in 1568 and sought to rule the empire by force

The predecessor of Tokugawa; succeeded Nobunaga Oda and laid the foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate

Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa Shogunate; established political unity in Japan

the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644;, A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during this dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu

A dam built across the Yangtze River that displaced over 1.5 million people during its construction. It is one of the largest dams in the world

A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China.

a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

a small administrative division of a country

government by ecclesiastical rulers

ideals stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct

all important administrative positions were shared equally by Chinese and Manchus

a clan that was extended kinship until consisting of dozens or even hundreds of join and nuclear families linked together by a clan council of eldery and a variety of other common social and religious functions

new fiction was characterized by a realism that resulted in vivid protraits of Chinese society

great lords of Japan

an extended era of national unification and peace under the rule of its greatest shogunate

an act that Hideyoshi-sama carried out to disarm the population and attracting samurai to their service in Japan

a composing ruiling of a coalition of daimyo and a council of elders

Japanese rice wine

nuclear family as the basic unit in Japanese society

classical drama with a new emphasis on violence, music, and dramatic gestures

aristocratic class in Korea

Great Mongol ruler, who's reing was over Beijing. Overthrown in 1368 by a massive peasant rebellion

Emperor that strengthened the Great Wall and pacified the nomadic tribes people who had troubled China in previous centuries

Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive kpeasant revellion of 1368

Predecessor of Yongle's; escaped to Southeast Asia to live in exile

Postal worker in central China who had been dismissed from his job as part of a cost-saving measure by the imperial court, now increasingly preoccupied by tribal attacks along the frontier; led a vast peasant rebellion

Emperor during the Qing dynasty; arguable the greatest ruler in Chinese history

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors

one of Emperor Kangxi's successors; was known for his diligence, tolerance, and intellectual curiosity, and he too combined viorious military action against the unruly tribes along the frontiuer with active efforts to promote economic propsperity, administrative efficieny, and scholarship and artistic excellence.

Manch official, known for being very corrupt

ritual of prostration and knocking the head on the ground performed by foreign emissaries before the emperor

One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a samurai and a military commander under the Ashikaga shoguante. Attempted to consolidate his rule throughout the central plains by defeating his rivals and suppressing the power of the Buddhist estates, but he was killed by one of his genreals in 1582 before the process was complete

Suceeded Oda-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. Son of a farmer, who had worked his way up within the ranks to become a military commander. Originally lacking a family name of his own, he eventually adoped the name Toyotomi ("abundant provider") to embellish his reputation for improving the material standards of his domain

Suceeded Hideyoshi-sama. One of the Three Great Unifiers of Japan. He was the powerful daimyo of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), moved to fill the vaccum. Neither Hideyoshi-sama nor Nobunaga-sama had claimed the title of shogun, but Ieyasu-sama named himself shogun in 1603, initiating the most powerful and long-lasting of all Japanese shogunates

Center of Christian Japanese and it's harbor was a small Dutch community were they were permitted to engage in limited trade with Japan

The divided states, separated into territories

First type of daimyo, who were mostly small daimyo directly supordinate to the shogunate

Second type of daimyo, who were larger and more independent lords usually more distant from the center of shogunate power in Edo

Considered to be one of Japan's greatest novelists. Saikaku-senpai's greatest novel, Five Women Who Loved Love, relates to the amorous exploits of five women of there merchant class. In addition to heterosexual novwels for the merchant class, Saikaku-senpai wrote of homosexual liaisions among the samurai

Seventeenth century grand Japanese poet. He was concerned with the search for the meaning of existence and the poetic expression of his experience. His genius lies in his sudden juxtaposition of a genral or eternal conditions with an immediate perception, an elecrical spark that instantly reveals a moment of truth

Renowned of the numerous block-print artsist. Painted erotic and sardonic women in everdya poses, such as walking down the street, cooking, or drying their bodies after a bath

Was famour for Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which created a new and bold interpretation of the Japanese landscape

Developed the genre of the travelogue print in his Fifty-Three Stages of the tokaido Highway, which presented ordinary scenes of daily life, both in the country and in the cities, all eveloped in a lyrical, quiet mood.