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WH: Chapter 7
The East Asian World 1400-1800
Question | Answer |
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series | a group of related things or events |
perspective | viewpoint |
queue | the braided pigtail that was traditionally worn by Chinese males |
porcelain | ceramic material made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures |
clan | a group of related families |
daimyo | great names; heads of noble families in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection |
process | a series of actions or steps leading to an end |
community | a group of people with common interests and characteristics living together within a larger society |
hans | about 250 domains into which Japan was divided under the Tokugawa |
hostage system | a system used by the shogunate to control the diamyo in Tokugawa Japan; The family of a diamyo lord was forced to stay at their residence in the capital whenever the lord was absent from it |
eta | Japans outcast class, whose way of life was strictly regulated by the Tokugawa |
isolationists | a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations |
archipelago | a chain of islands |
network | an interrelated or interconnected group or system |
mainland states | part of the continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands |
bureaucracy | an administrative organization that relies on non elective officials and regular procedures |
impose | to establish or apply |