1. Introduction
   1. Who is Matteo Ricci?
   2. What type of influence did the Europeans have on the internal affaris of China in the 17th century?
   3. Who first unified Japan?
2. The quest for political stability

1. Introduction
• How did the mongols treat Chinese bureaucrats and their political and cultural traditions?
2. The ______ dynasty
1. Who drove the Mongols out of China?
   1. Who are mandarins?
   2. Who launched a series of naval expeditions that sailed throughout the Indian Ocean Basin?
   3. What did the Ming emperors do to try to prevent foreign invasions and influence?
4. The Ming government sponsored the study of ?
2. What are the four major events that represented the decline of the Ming dynasty?
5. What led to the final collapse of the empire?
3. The Qing dynasty
   1. Who formed the Qing dynasty and where did they come from?
      1. Who unified them into a centralized state and organized them into a powerful military force?
      2. How were the Qing able to establish their dynasty?
      3. How did they preserve their own ethnic and cultural identities?
   2. Who was a Confucian scholar; effective, and enlightened ruler?
      1. What areas did he conquer?
   3. Who was a sophisticated and learned ruler, poet, and artist?
      1. What areas did he conquer?
      2. Describe China under his rule?
4. Explain the concept of "son of heaven"?
   • Define kowtow?
5. Who governed the empire?
   • How did they get this position?
6. Explain the examination system and how it influenced Chinese society?

3. Economic and social changes

1. What was the basic unit of Chinese society?
   1. Define filial piety
   2. Describe Gender relations in China.
   3. What are some examples of how women were treated?
2. Population growth and economic development
   1. China was what type of society?
   2. What enabled the Chinese to farm previously uncultivated land?
   3. The introduciton of news crops increased the food supply and resulted in what?
   4. What was the population of China in 1500 and then in 1750?
   5. How did this population growth benefit manufacturing and trade?
   6. What brought tremendous prosperity to China?
   7. What did the Chinese export and import?
   8. Who is Zheng He?
   • Why did Ming government withdraw support for his expeditions?
   9. How did the Ming government try to prevent Chinese subjects from dealing with foreign peoples?
   10. Government and technology
       1. China's economic expansion took place in the absence of what?
       2. What technology orginated in China, but the Chinese had to borrow from the Europeans?
       3. Why did the Ming and Qing dynasties coniser labor-saving technologies unnecessary?
       4. Why was technology not encouraged in Ming and Qing China?
3. Gentry, commoners, soldiers, and mean people
   1. Who were the Privileged classes and what did they do?
   2. Who was the largest class and how were they viewed?
   3. Who were powerful and wealthy but looked down upon in the traditional Confucian social hierarchy?
   4. Who were the "mean people"?:

4. The Confucian tradition and new cultural influences

1. Neo-Confucianism and pulp fiction
   1. Who was Zhu Xi?
   2. How did the Min and Qing emperors support Confucian education?
   3. What was the Yongle Encyclopedia?
   4. Name a popular pulp fiction novel?
2. The return of Christianity to China
   1. Confucianism and Christianity
      1. Why did the Jesuits who were respectful of Chinese tradition, win few converts?
   2. Explain the conflict that resulted in the end of the Jesuit mission in China.

5. The unification of Japan

1. The Tokugawa shogunate
   1. Introduction
      1. What is a shogun and how did they rule japan?
      2. What was the role of the emperor?
      3. Describe Japan during the sexteenth century?
   2. Who brought stability to Japan after 1600?
      1. What did he establish?
   3. What was the principal aim of hte Tokugawa shoguns?
   4. Who were the daimyo?
   5. How did the Tokugawa control the daimyo?
   6. Explain the policies the Tokugawa implemented to try to prevent European influences from destabilizing thier land?
2. Economic and social change
   1. Introduction
      1. How did the Tokugawa shoguns set the stage for economic growth in Japan?
      2. What enabled increased agricultural production in this period?
      3. How much did agricultural production increase because of these advancements?
   2. One result of increased agricultural production is that between 1600 and 1700 what occured in Japan?
      2. Why does this change after 1700?
   3. Social change
      1. What undermined the social and economic role of warrior elites?
      2. Who became prominent, and often wealthier than the ruling elites even though their position was low in the traditional Confucian social order?
3. Neo-Confucianism and floating worlds
   1. What became the official ideology of the Tokugawa?
   2. Explain "Native Learning".
   3. What were the "Floating worlds"?--
   4. Who was Japan's most prolific poet?
   5. What were the two new forms of drama that became popular in Japan?
4. Christianity and Dutch learning
   1. Where the early Christian missions, under Jesuits, successful in the sixteenth century?
   2. Who launched the Anti-Christian campaign and why did they do it?
   3. Explain Dutch learning and it's impact on Tokugawa Japan.