People of Note
Person, Place or Thing
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Potporri
100
He is often called the Father of Faith Missions.
Who is J. Hudson Taylor?
100
This was a serious uprising in India because Indians believed the British had little or no respect for their religious beliefs.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
100
The chief possession of this occupies a tiny corner of the Asian continent.
What is Hong Kong?
100
Countries of the Far East were this of any foreign influences.
What is suspicious?
100
In 1858, this wrested away the last vestiges of political authority from the East India Company and gave full political control of India to the British government.
What is the India Act?
200
This Portuguese navigator's voyage to India marked the beginning of European influence in Asia.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
This company helped the British gain control of most of India in the early 1600s.
What is the British East India Company?
200
He was known for his complete dependence upon God for needed money and supplies.
Who is J. Hudson Taylor?
200
This ambassador negotiated the treaty which bears his name, opening Japan to Christian missionaries.
Who is Townsend Harris?
200
He arrived in India in 1806 as a chaplain for the East India Company.
What is Henry Martyn?
300
He persuaded Japan to open its harbors for trade in 1854.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
300
At the beginning of the 19th century, Christian missions in Asia were almost this.
What is nonexistent?
300
By 1914, Japan was on the way to becoming this.
What is one of the major world powers?
300
By 1914, Christianity had done this.
What is circled the globe?
300
Both England and France took advantage of this to stake claims in India.
What is unrest?
400
In 1807, this man from Scotland became the first Protestant missionary to China.
Who is Robert Morrison?
400
He is called the Father of Modern Missions and he goal was to translate the Bible into all the languages of Asia.
Who is William Carey?
400
In the Spanish Philippines, this became the dominant religion.
What is Romanism?
400
By 1760, England was the only European power left here.
What is India?
400
The English East India Company long opposed missions within its territories because of this.
What is the fear that by stirring up religious animosities among non-Christians they would make its rule more difficult and cut into its profits?
500
She worked for years to rescue young Indian girls from lives of prostitution in the pagan temples and to bring them to Christ and teach Indians the way of salvation.
Who is Amy Carmichael?
500
The Dutch introduced this to Indonesia in the 17th century.
What is Protestantism?
500
In 1874, an Indian prince said the English-speaking people get all of their intelligence, and energy, and cleverness, and power from this.
What is the Bible?
500
This is the practice of burning a widow alive along with her dead husband's body.
What is suttee?
500
Timothy Richard's Christian Literature Society helped Chinese learn this.
What is the history and institutions of the West?
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