Confucianism
Loyalty of children towards their fathers.
What is Filial Piety?
The process of breaking feet to make them small and dainty for male arousal.
What is foot binding?
The emperor is not quite a god, but not a mere mortal.
What is the "Son of Heaven?"
The ultimate source of political authority in Japan.
Who were shoguns?
The Greek goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
The 12th century scholar who articulated Neo-Confucianism.
Who is Zhu Xi?
The exam took three days and students had to bring their own materials.
What are the Civil Service Exams?
This class included soldiers, slaves, and marginal groups.
Who are the "mean people?"
Powerful territorial lords who ruled Japan with vast, hereditary landholding.
Who were the daimyo?
The number of times the Mona Lisa has been stolen.
What is once?
Confucians valued this above all else.
What is education?
A genre of fiction that features racy and crude novels popular in China.
What is pulp fiction?
This ruler was a learned man who composed more than one hundred thousand poems.
Who is Qianlong?
The indigenous religion of Japan.
What is Shinto?
Victorians said this fruit's name when taking their picture, much like how today we say "cheese."
What are prunes?
This class from street peddlers to individuals with enormous wealth ranked at the bottom of Confucian social hierarchy.
Who are merchants?
The most prominent missionaries to travel to China, the founders was Matteo Ricci.
Who are the Jesuits?
This ambitious chieftain unified Manchu tribes into a centralized state and organized a powerful military force from 1616-1626.
Who is Nurhaci?
Centers of urban culture, entertainment, and pleasure in Japan.
What are the "floating worlds?"
Civil War opponents Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee fought on the same side in this war.
What is the Mexican-American war?
This man created Confucianism.
Who is Confucius?
These individuals were the primary victims of infanticide.
Who are baby girls?
This emperor (reigned 1403-1424) launched a series of naval expeditions to the Indian Ocean basin and to east Africa.
Who is Yongle?
The Jesuit missionary who traveled to Japan to seek Christian converts.
Who is Francis Xavier?
In 1579, during his trip around the world, he stopped near present-day San Francisco and named the area Nova Albion.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?