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History Unit 4 t
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Maritime Expeditions of the 1400s reinforced what Chinese thought concerning the outside world? | They were government sponsored explorations of the Indian Ocean that reinforced how advanced Chinese seamanship, ship design, and equipment were and how confident the Chinese were in their dealings with foreigner of all type. |
| In which Chinese port city could the Portuguese legally trade? | Macao, near Guangzhou |
| How did Confucian ethics comment on the Chinese value system. | |
| Name several key Chinese characteristics that have been passed down since the beginning of time. | |
| Name the city where the Ming capital returned. | Beijing. In order to better direct the defense effort |
| During the Ming period, what was the primary purpose of Chinese schooling? | To prepare boys for the government service exams. (civil service exams) |
| Why did Ming China build its army to one million men? | |
| How did writing change during the Qing Dynasty? | |
| How did the Chinese, under Mangsi, respond to European traders? | |
| Define the Japanese shogunate. | Series of military strongmen culminating in the establishment of a type of centralized feudalism. Military regency The govt. of medieval Japan in which the shogun a military & civil regent leader.emperor -symbolic head of the state & religion. |
| Who, or what, was Sakoku? | The isolation of Japan from the outer world , provoked by Tokugawa shoguns. Eventually, the closing off trade with foreigners stimulated internal production, and domestic trade rose. |
| Discuss the role of Admiral Matthew Perry in Japan. | American naval commander. He caused the trigger for japan's modernization, by the forceful "opening of japan" to foreign trade in 1853-1854. He extorted a treaty from the shogun that allowed U.S. ships to dock and do business in Japanese ports. |
| How did Tokugawa respond the Christianity in the country? | He evicted the Christian missionaries who had been in the country for half a century and put heavy pressure on the Christian Japanese to reconvert to Buddhism. Death became the standard penalty for Christian affiliation. |
| Define sakoku. | Japan's self-imposed isolation from the outer world that lasted two centuries until 1854. No foreigners could come to Japan and no Japanese were allowed to reside abroad. |
| Discuss the Shinto faith of Japan. | The native Japanese religion. |
| Who were the samurai? | Professional warrior class. Had been military servants of the wealthy daimyo and their "enforcers" with he peasants. |
| What is bushido? | Code of honor among the samurai. |
| How did Britain force the opening of Chinese ports to the outside world of trade? Name the product that made this possible. | The Beijing government was forced to sign the "unequal treaties". The treaties opened up the previously closed Chinese coastal towns to British consuls, merchants and missionaries. Opium. |
| How was the Taiping Rebellion put down? | taipings opposed opium smoking & giveaways of Chinese rightes to foreigners. western support the Qing, bc the govt would give them little trouble in the future. rebels began to quarrel among themselves they were breaking up. Qing defeated the Taipings. |
| How did Japan deal with Korea after the Sino-Japanese War? | Japan later annexed Korea and announced that it was replacing China as the most powerful Asian nation. |
| Discuss the Boxer Rebellion. | A desperate revolt by superstitious peasant against the European "foreign devils" who were carving up China in the new imperialism of the 1890,; quickly suppressed. Was an attempt to answer this wave of foreign exploitation. |
| Discuss China’s “self-strengthening policy. | An effort to strengthen the Qing monarchy and to modernize the Chinese army. failed to achieve its goal. Policy was aimed at restoring vitality to the court and giving China the means to hold its own against the foreign barbarians |
| What did the Java War? | Was the decisive step, establishing Dutch sovereignty once and for all over this moist important Indonesian lands. |
| Name the European power that controlled Vietnam (Indochina) in the latter 19th-century. | French |
| Which area opened to British merchants after the Opium Wars? | |
| Discuss the May Fourth Movement . | A reform movement of young Chinese students and intellectuals protested the Versailles Treaty's gift of a part of China to Japan in the post WWI era; Mao Zedong was a member prior to his conversion to Marxism. |
| Who was Chiang Kai-shek? | Early colleague of Sun Yat-sen, lieutenant. He headed the KMT's military branch. He succeeded Sun as the leader of the Kuomintang. Opposed the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, but was defeated in 1949 and forced to flee to Taiwan. |
| When Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintan government were forced out of power in China, where did they ultimately go? | TAIWAN |
| Discuss the new governmental innovations under Japan’s 1889 constitution. | It gave the parliamentary vote to a small electorate and allowed the emperor considerable but not supreme power over the govt. elected by the parliament. |
| Japanese pre-World War 2 aggression began in 1931 when Japanese officers seized which country? | Manchuria |
| What was China’s Northern Expedition of 1926 about? | Chiang Kai-shek wanted to go after the warlords who had made themselves into petty kings in the north and northeast, and bring them under effective central control. This northern expedition was a success and several providences were recovered. |
| Discuss Mao Zedong’s view of post-Stalinist Soviet leadership. | He believed that true revolutions demanded a nearly supernatural leader, whith whom the ignorant masses might identify, something that Khrushchev never pretended to be or was capable of being. |
| Discuss India’s and Pakistan’s fight over Kashmir. | Nehru believed that India could best live w/ neighboring Muslim Pakistan by showing it a strong hand which caused India and Pakistan to over the ownership of Kashmir, where muslims predominated but India ruled. |
| Which Indian extreme political group assassinated Indira Gandhi? | Sikh |
| How were people in China selected for governmental positions during the Cultural Revolution? | ? By the civil service exams |
| Discuss Tiananmen Square. | freedom of thought and expression among students again frightened the leaders, and when student's demonstrators erected a "Goddess of Democracy" statue in Beijing, the leaders reasserted Party control by shooting down of perhaps thousands of Chinese |
| Name the poorest country on the Indian sub-continent. | pakistan |
| How did India’s Jawaharial Nehru differ with Gandhi over industrialization of India? | Nehru believed that Western-style industrialization was necessary to avoid social chaos in India, He also believed that India could best live w/ neighboring Muslim Pakistan by showing it a strong hand. |
| Name the “four little tigers” of the Pacific rim. | Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong in the 1960's-1980's economic upsurge. |
| Discuss the role of the diamyo during the Takugawa Shogunate. | They were warrior nobles. They were equivalent to the barons of Europe some centuries earlier, were expected to spend half their time at the court of the shogun, where they would be under the watchful eyes of the shogun and his network of informers. |
| Discuss the role of the diamyo during the Takugawa Shogunate. | They acted both as the emperor's agents and as autonomous regents in their own domains. key players in governance and posed a constant potential threat to Tokugawa's arrangements. |
| Discuss the role of the diamyo during the Takugawa Shogunate. | As the source of military power on the local level, they could tear down any shogun if they united against him. |
| Who was Sun Yat-sen? | Educated in western schools. Helped overthrow the Qing monarchy and became one of the founders of the Kuomintang Party and of the Chinese Republic.He was a leader of an antigovernment reform movement that quickly swept the whole country. |
| Who was Sun Yat-sen? | a revolution was the only answer to China's many ills. He took up the cause of reform among the overtaxed and impoverished peasantry, believing that China could regain political harmony only after a measure of social justice had been established. |
| Discuss the “New China Movement” under Kang Yu-wei. | An intellectual reform movement in the 1890's that attempted to change and modernize China by modernizing the government. |
| Discuss the “New China Movement” under Kang Yu-wei. | argued against Confucian philosophy represented an unchanging and unchangeable model of government and society. taught that Confucius was a reformer and that reform was a basic ingredient of his philosophy. |
| History was evolutionary not static, that history was moving forward in china, towards democratic government. The attempt wasn’t successful. | History was evolutionary not static, that history was moving forward in china, towards democratic government. The attempt wasn’t successful. |
| What did the Great Leap Forward attempt to do? | This was Mao Zedong's misguided attempt in 1958-1960 to provide china with an instantaneous industrial base rivaling that of more advanced nations. Attempted to an overnight mass industrialization. It was an enormously costly failure. |
| What did the Great Leap Forward attempt to do? | It accelerated the growing gap between the Chinese and their Russian mentors especially between Mao and Khrushchev. China's attempt to make itself industrially independent of outside aid during the 1950's. |
| Discuss the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. | The period from 1966-1976 when Mao Zedong inspired Chinese youth to rebel against all authority except his own. Caused great damage to the Chinese economy and culture. |
| Discuss the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. | The attack was aimed at the intellectuals, particularly those in the CCP;s cadres of officials. Goal- To rid the Chinese people of the reverence for tradition. the youthful Red Guards to make war on the older generations and its "empty formalism." |
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