Japan
These were the warrior class of feudal Japan between the ___ and 19th centuries.
DP: What is in the blank?
What are the Samurai?
DP: 13th
China's recorded history began almost 4,000 years ago with the founding of the Shang Dynasty in _____ BCE, but its entire history is much older.
When was 1766 BCE?
One of the most famous and longest continuously used routes of travel and trade in human history, this stretched from China to the ports of the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Silk Road?
He was a Portuguese prince who sponsored maritime explorations of West Africa.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
This, located in China, is the name for the Imperial Palace, built in the center of Beijing during the Ming dynasty in the 15th century.
What is The Forbidden City?
They were powerful military lords who oversaw large estates in Japan from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century.
Who were Daimyos?
The second conflict of the Opium Wars, the Arrow War raged between Great Britain and China during ______-_____.
When was 1856-1860?
It was a 17th-century trading firm that focused on a region of Asia that is today called the Republic of Indonesia.
DOUBLE POINTS! What was the Republic of Indonesia called back then?
What was the Dutch East India Company?
DP: Dutch East Indies
He (1450–1500) was one of the most important Portuguese sea explorers of the 15th century and the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa.
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
This event in 1757 was an important turning point in the British East India Company's campaign to gain control of India.
What is The Battle of Plassey?
The two types of theatres that emerged in Japan.
DP: What centuries did each appear?
Kabuki: 17th century.
Noh: 14th century.
Following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the Ming dynasty ruled China from _____ to ______.
When was 1368 to 1644?
A dictatorship in Japanese History.
What is a shogunate?
This Portuguese navigator (1460–1524) was the first to sail from Portugal to India and opened up major trading routes for spices and gems.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
The turban is made using a process of repeatedly winding a long swath of ____, _____, _____, or other fabric around the human head.
What is linen, silk, and cotton?
In Japanese history, the period from ___ to ____ is known as the Tokugawa shogunate, during which the shogun ___________ and his successors established a dictatorship over the entire country.
When was 1603 to 1868 and who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?
The rise of the Qing dynasty brought epic change to ___ century China. Although the Taiping Rebellion weakened its power in the middle of the ____ century, the Qing dynasty ruled China until the early ___ century.
When was 17th, 19th, 20th?
The Qing sought to maintain ____ by insisting Manchurians cultivate horseback, archery skills and discouraging marriage between Manchurians and Chinese.
What is ethnic distinctiveness?
He (1536–1598) was instrumental in the unification of Japan after a century of civil war.
Who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
The dominant ethnic group of Northwestern China.
DOUBLE POINTS: Exactly what is the name of the region of northwestern China?
What is the Muslim Turkic ethnic group?
DP: the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
The _____ was the shogunal system of government in Japan from ____ to ____. Literally translated as "__________," it was in essence a military government, as opposed to the civil government of the emperor at Kyoto.
What is bakufu, 1603, 1868, tent government?
Tokugawa Ieyasu (_____–_____) founded the Tokugawa shogunate (military government), which effectively ruled Japan from _____ to the Meiji Restoration of _____.
When was 1543, 1616, 1600, 1868?
During the Qing Dynasty, foreigners could only trade at official ports, and this was one of the ports.
Where is Canton?
Name two of the three people who allied to overthrow the shoguns of the Sengoku period and secure Japan's military reunification.
DOUBLE POINTS: Name all three as well as the name of the shoguns.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
DP: Ashikaga
This is how the first Emperor of the Ming empire become the emperor and what religion did he practice?
What is he was the Leader of peasant rebellion and a Buddhist novice?