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The treaty in 1757 that reduced the remaining Japanese princes to vassals of the Dutch East India Company.
What is the Treaty of Gijanti?
100
Was one of the first daimyos to make use of the firearms that the Japanese had begun to receive from the Portuguese in the 1540s
Who was Nobunaga?
100
Fort the Portuguese captured in 1510 on the West Indian coast.
What is Goa?
100
Correct chronological order fo the Early Modern Chinese Empires.
What are Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing?
100
Economic policy that encouraged the Portuguese to use force in entering the Asian Trade Network.
What is Mercantilism?
200
Despite having recently captured Malacca, the Dutch chose to locate their headquarters in Batvia for this reason.
What is Batvia's location closer to the source of spices?
200
After the death of Nobunaga,this general moved quickly to punish the traitors and to renew the drive to break the power of the daimyos.
Who was Toyotomo Hideyoshi?
200
Trading port at the South end of the Persian coast.
What is Ormuz?
200
During the Ming era, this practice, necessary to become part of the bureaucracy, became more complex and routine than ever before.
What is the examination system?
200
European trading fortresses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce.
What are factories?
300
The Portuguese defeated these forces at the battle of Diu in 1509.
Who were the Egyptian and Indians?
300
Vassal of Toyotomo Hideyoshi; succeeded him as the most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established the Tokugawa shogunate; established political unity in Japan.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?
300
The most critical fort captued by the Portuguese on the tip of the Malayan Peninsula.
What is Malacca?
300
When the Portuguese realized that their products were of little value to the Asians they decided to use this tactic to control the region.
What is military force?
300
Divided, from West to East, into three zones prior to the European arrival: an Arab zone based on glass, carpets, and tapestries; an Indian zone, with cotton textiles; and a Chinese zone, with paper, porcelain, and silks.
What is the Asian Trade Network?
400
This group of people seized power from the Ming dynasty and established the Qing Dynasty, the last of the Chinese dynasties.
Who are the Zhurchens (Manchu)?
400
Jesuit scholars at the Ming court; also skilled scientists; won few converts to Christianity.
Who were Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall?
400
Southern island ruled by Muslims that resisted Spanish efforts of conquest.
What is Mindanao?
400
The fact that the animistic peoples inhabiting it lived in small states the Spanish could subjugate one by one helped to facilitate the conquest of this island.
What is Luzon?
400
Reduced the remaining independent Javanese princes to vassals of the Dutch East India Company; allowed the Dutch to monopolize Java’s coffee production.
What is the Treaty of Gijanti?
500
During the Ming era, this system was made more complex and routine than ever before.
What is the examination system?
500
Italian Jesuit active in India during the early 1600s; failed in a policy of first converting indigenous elites.
Who was Robert Di Nobli?
500
The only two ports in Ming China where Europeans were allowed to trade.
What are Macao and Canton?
500
18th-century ideology that emphasized Japan’s unique historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of Confucianism and other Chinese influences.
What is the School of National Learning?
500
This island port in Nagasaki was the only port open to foreigners during the period of Japanese isolationism.
What is Deshima?