List of beliefs and teachings by the church.
What is a doctrine?
The belief of complete and unrestricted power in government.
What is absolutism?
This was a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
In the late 1500s and again in the 1630s, Korea was invaded by these two nations in succession.
What was Japan and China?
This dynasty restored Chinese rule and held power from 1368 to 1644
Who were the Ming?
A successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, which established the Republic of China and ended the imperial system.
What is the (Chinese) Revolution of 1911?
French Protestants in the 1500s.
Who are Huguenots?
The English translation of sola fide.
What is by faith alone?
She ruled England for 45 years during 1500s and died without an heir. History has given her the nickname the Virgin Queen.
Who is Elizabeth I?
This order was part of the Catholic Church and worked to spread Christianity in China and Japan in the 16th & 17th centuries.
Who were the Jesuits?
This region's/country's political system in Southeast Asia mostly resembled the Chinese system of emperors.
What was Vietnam?
Two wars in the mid-19th century (1839–1842 and 1856–1860) involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China’s sovereignty. The wars and events between them weakened the Qing dynasty and forced China to trade with the rest of the world.
What are the Opium Wars?
A belief, creed, or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one’s nation. In Europe, people were generally loyal to the church or to a local king or leader.
What is nationalism?
An educational reform movement with origins in the Renaissance’s revival of classical learning and thought.
What is humanism?
He manipulated the English Parliament and utilized Protestant members of this body, to break away from the Catholic Church. This break was necessary in order for him to divorce his wife and remarry in order to produce a male heir to the throne. The result was the formation of the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
This Jesuit was the first Catholic missionary in China. He learned Chinese and translated books from Latin to Chinese.
Who was Father Matteo Ricci?
Established by the Manchus, this was China's last dynasty, lasting from the mid-1600s to the early 1900s.
Who were the Qing?
Areas in which foreign powers were granted exclusive rights and privileges, mainly trading rights and mining privileges.
What are spheres of influence?
Group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries founded by some exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England.
Who are Puritans?
He worked tirelessly to remove the nobles and Huguenots from holding any power in France in the 1600s.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
A series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
This group of supreme military leaders ruled Japan from 1603 through 1869.
Who were the Tokugawa?
The Chinese were perhaps more influenced by the exchange of this than by trade with Europe.
What were ideas?
A British joint-stock company formed to pursue trade with mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China.
What is the British East India Company?
Council of the Roman Catholic Church set up in Trento, Italy, in direct response to the Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
His attempt to invade England (Elizabeth I) fails and his huge armada (sailing fleet) is defeated by the faster, lighter and more maneuverable English ships.
Who is Phillip II of Spain?
The body of laws and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
What is Canon Law?
The three prominent religions present in the political systems of Southeast Asia during Early East Asia history.
What were Confucianism, Islam, and Buddhism?
This group was not part of the warrior class in the Tokugawa social structure. The Tokugawa also enacted strict laws to restrict them.
Who were the Eta?
A Chinese civil war(1850-1864), killing 20 million+; between the Qing and the millenarian movement led by Hong Xiuquan (who believed he was the younger brother Jesus Christ).
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
1. “Total depravity” 2. “Unconditional election” 3. “Limited atonement” 4. “Irresistible grace” and 5. “Perseverance of the saints”
What are the “Five Points of Calvinism?"
He led England, if only for 10 years or so, out of the absolute monarchy under Charles I (who was beheaded in 1649), into a Commonwealth and established the Church of England. His Puritan ideals sought to “purify” the English (Anglican) Church of Catholic practices.
Who is Oliver Cromwell
An English Parliament that lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had been held for three weeks during the spring of 1640, and which in its turn had followed a parliamentary absence of eleven years.
What is the Long Parliament?
Ruler of the Qing from 1161 to 1722. He was a
competent administrator and military leader who extended
Chinese power into central Asia and promoted Chinese culture.
Who was Kangxi?
Grandson of Kangxi and ruler of the Qing dynasty
from 1736 to 1796. He was as equally successful as his
grandfather, expanding China’s borders to rule the largest area in
the nation’s history. He retired after 60 years because he did not
want to rule longer than his grandfather.
Who was Qianlong?
An 1894–1895 conflict between the Qing and Japan over the influence of Korea. Japan replaces China as the Asian power.
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?