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AP World History
Valhalla High School Bentley AP World Ch. 27
| Term | Definition | Significance | Time Period | Chapter | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daimyo | powerful territorial lords in early modern Japan who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary landholdings. | Daimyos functioned as near absolute rulers within their domains. | 1600-1800 | 27 | Japan |
| Neo-Confuciansim | Philosophy that attempted to merge certain basic elements of Confucian and Buddhist thought | As part of Confucian education, there were imperial cultural projects such as libraries and encyclopedias. It refreshed Chinese cultural development. | (1130-1200 CE) | 27 | Japan |
| Floating worlds | Centers of urban culture such as teahouses, theaters and brothels. | They offered an escape from social responsibilities and rigid rules of conduct which governed public behavior. | 1600-1700 | 27 | Japan |
| Christian missions | Campaigns led by Jesuits to attract converts to the Christian faith. | Attracted large numbers of Japanese converts quickly. By 1615 there were 300,000 Japanese converts. | 1549-1630 | 27 | Japan |
| Dutch learning | European knowledge that reached Tokugawa Japan through Dutch merchants trading in Nagasaki. | Once the ban on foreign texts was lifted in 1720, many Dutch texts were converted to Japanese and attracted to study things such as astronomy, anatomy, and botany. | 1639-1750 | 27 | Japan |
| Great Wall | Ming emperors built wall for defense of China | Ming emperors wanted to protect their realm so they built the Great Wall along their northern border. This wall consisted of watch towers, signal towers, and accomodations. | Late 15th and 16th centuries. | 27 | China |
| Manchus | Pastoral nomads who conquered China, founded the Qing dynasty and ended the Ming dynasty. | They had frequent clashes with their neighbors. They were unified under Nurhaci, promulgated a code of laws and organized a powerful military force. | 1600s and early 1700s | 27 | Originated in Manchuria, Migrated to China, Captured Korea, Mongolia, and Beijing. |
| Kangxi | Confucian scholar, enlightened ruler, and conqueror who sought to apply Confucian ideas through his policies. | Helped Manchus consolidate hold on China, applied the Confucian texts in his policies, organized irrigation projects for welfare of his subjects and to promote agriculture, and conquered many lands. | 1661-1722 | 27 | China |
| Qianlong | Sophisticated man, grandson of Kangxi. | Expanded the influence of China, height of Qing dynasty came under his reign. Imperial treasury bulged so much that he cancelled tax collections on four occasions. China remained a wealthy and organized land during his reign. | 1736-1795 | 27 | China |
| Son of Heaven | Human designated by heavenly powers to maintain order on Earth, lived in the Forbidden City. | According to Chinese tradition, the emperor was designated by heavenly powers and therefore had a connection to God, he was greatly looked up to and held many powers. | 1300s to early 20th century | 27 | China |
| scholar-bureaucrats | Civil servants, appointed by the emperor, who were selected after completeing rigorous exams. | They held the responsibility of day-to-day governance, and they dominated political and social life. | around the 1700s | 27 | China |
| civil-service exams | Extremely rigorous exams that involved mostly caligraphy, writing, and Confucian texts. | These exams were very important to the lives of many men which caused kids to start preparing at very young ages. The cirriculum was mostly Confucian so this stressed the importance of Confucian values in society. | around the 1700s | 27 | China |
| Filial Piety | The cornerstone of family values, it held the duties of children to fathers, and subjects to emperors. Fathers were the head of the family. | Authority of the patriarchs was strengthened because the male line of descent was honored under Filial Piety. The Chinese family was hierarchical, patriarchal, and authoritarian and the kids were taught Confucian values. | around the 1700s or 1800s | 27 | China |
| footbinding | a form of male dominance which consisted of the binding of womens feet to make them more attractive for marriage | Footbinding was a major patriarchal idea which devalued women and led to the lack of womens rights in the future, especially for Chinese women. | Ming, Qing dynasties | 27 | China |
| East India Company | British joint-stock company that grew to be a state within a state in India | The East India Company had its own armed forces and opened trade between India and Europe and also introduced British forces into India which later caused conflict. | circa 1600 CE | 27 | India |
| Yongle | Ming emperor | Yongle pushed for foreign exploration and promoted cultural achievements such as the Yongle Encyclopedia which economically and culturally opened China to the rest of the world. | (reigned 1403-1424 CE) | 27 | China |
| Matteo Ricci | Italian Jesuit in the Ming court | Having mastered written and oral Chinese, Matteo Ricci gained the respect of many Chinese citizens and hence, they tolerated Christianity a lot more. | (1552-1610 CE) | 27 | China |
| Shogun | Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor | Shoguns were significant because they exemplified the practice of having smaller militarily focused groups ruling in place of an imperial government. This eventually caused internal conflicts. | after 1600 CE | 27 | Japan |
| Bakufu | military government which controlled daimyo marriages, travel, expenditures | Bakufu represented the absolute control of the daimyo as local lords. This unchecked power often got out of control and led to civil disobedience. | after 1600 CE | 27 | Japan |
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