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Chapter 3 sections 2-3 Chapter 12 sections 1-2
China and Japan
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History
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02/15/2011

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Tribute
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A tributes is a tax or a way of paying ur respect to someone who is a higher in authority or power than you.
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Zheng He
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A Chinese Muslim admiral who led 7 vogages, gave silver and in return 16 countries sent tribute to China. Chinese scholar officials complained that it cost too much and after that China withdrew into isolation.
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Daimyo
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warrior Chieftans

 

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Tokuwaga Shogunate
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a major step towards restoring centralized government to Japan. As a result the rule of law overcame the rule of sword. It would hold power until 1867.
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Haiku
Definition
5-7-5 syllable, 5 line verse poetry
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Kabuki
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theater
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Extraterritorial rights
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foreigners were not subject to the law of the country they're in.
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Sphere of Influence
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an area in which the foreign nation controls trade and investment.
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Open door Policy
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US was afraid that countries would split China into colonies and shut them out so they created this which decleared that China's doors be open to merchants of all nations.
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Meiji Era
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Mutsuhito's reign which lasted 45 years
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Annexation
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a country takes over another country and the country that was taken over seizes to exist
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Kowtow
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the ritual that involved kneeling in front of the emperor and touching one's head to the ground nine times.
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Ming Dynasty
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China became the dominant power during this dynasty (1368-1644) In recognition for their power, vassals states from Korea to Southeast Asia paid their respects by paying regular tribute. China expected the Europeans to do the same, they were not going to let outsiders threaten the peace and prosperity they brought after they ended Mughal control.
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Hongwu
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A pesant's son, commanded the rebel army that drove the Mongols out of China in 1368. That year, he became the forst Ming emperor. He continued to rule from the former Yuan Capital of Nanjing in the south. He began reforms designed to restore agricultural lands devastated by war, erase all traces of the Mongol past, and promote China's power and prosperity. 
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Yonglo
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he was Hongwu's son, he continue many of his dad's policies but moved the capital to Beijing. He launched the first of seven voyages of exploratio. He wanted to expand China's tributes system.
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Qing dynasty
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In 1644 the Manchus invaded and the Ming Dynasty collapsed. the Manchus seized Beijing and their leader becae China's new emperor.took a chinese name for their dynasty. They would rule for more than 260 years and expand China.
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Kangxi
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he became emperor in 1661 and rule for some 60 years. He lowered taxes and reduced government expenses. He enjoyed the company of the Jesuits at court they told him about developments in scienece, medicines, and mathematics in Europe.
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Qian- long
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he is Kangxi's grandson and he extended china to its gretest size and prosperity.
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Boys v.s Girls
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son's would raise their family under their psrent's roof, assuring aging parents of help with the farming. Girls were not valued and often were killed.
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Oda Nobunaga

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he seized the empirial capital Tokyo in 1568 and he was also a daymio. He was not able to unite Japan so he commited seppuku when one of his own generals turned on him.

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Seppuku
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the ritual suicide of a samurai
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Nobugana's best general who continued his fallen leader's mission. By the 1590 he controlled most of Japan. He invaded Korea in 1592 and began a long campaign against the Koreans and their Ming Chinese allies. When he died his troops withdrew from Korea.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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he was one of Hideyoshi's strongest daimyo allies. Who completed the unification of Japan. He moved the capital to Edo. He used the alternate attendance policy- daymio spent one year in the capital and the other in their hometown but their family had to stay behind so they couldn't rebel. He founded the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Social Structure in Tokugawa society
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highest emperor, shoguns, daymio, samurai,peasants, lowest and merchants
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Francis Xavier
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he was a Jesuit who led the first mission to Japan
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the Dowager empress Cixi
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she was in command of the Qing imperial palace and held the reigns in power of China.
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