Japan
Who were the daimyo (DIE-mee-oh) of Japan
Who are land owners; nobility
Which group grew in their patronage of merchant wares and how did the government respond?
What is the Samurai and the government paid them in rice and set the price of the rice
Which group of people were overthrown by the Russian princes in the late 1400s?
What is The Golden Horde
Peter the Great attempted to undermine the power of this group, replacing them with able advisors
Boyars
What was the significance of the 47 Ronin incident?
Both the young daimyo and his samurai had to commit ritualistic suicide. Shows the centralization and decentralization of Japan.
Who were the samurai of Japan?
Daimyo’s private army (each had their own)
Who were the first Europeans to arrive in Japan in 1543?
What is Portuguese
Why were Russians interested in expanding their territory into freezing cold Siberia?
They wanted the furriest animals which lead them to the coast of California
Peter the Great established St. Petersburg to give them an outlet in this northern sea:
What is the baltic sea
Hideyoshi’s forces attacked these two places on the Asian mainland:
What is China and Korea
What did the Tokugawa government begin doing in 1614/1617 and why was this change made?
They started to persecuting Christians because they thought that europeans were gaining too much power that would lead to imperialism
The Treaty of Nerchinsk established territorial boundaries between Russia and ___ in 1689.
What is China
Why was Peter the Great interested in Western ideas?
It benefited him as he was interested in centralizing the government; He went to a european school and noticed all the ingenious technological advancements(including ships)
What was the name of the new, more centralized government that came to power after the death of Hideyoshi?
What is the Tokugawa shogunate
The information that came from the Europeans who remained in Nagasaki was called:
"Dutch Studies”
While most Russians were Eastern Orthodox, the eastern expansion meant that more and more people practicing this religion were also incorporated into Russia
What is Islam
What drew Russian trappers all the way across the Bering Strait to Northern California?
What is Otter pelts
What did the shogun pay his lords in?
What is rice
How did Confucianism impact the government opinion of the status of merchants?
Confucians did not see merchants highly
In 1649, new restrictions were placed on this growing class of people preventing them from moving from landlord to landlord:
Serfs
What territory was gained for Russia under Catherine the Great?
America
Lithuania, Alaska, Poland