Ming China Flashcards

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In Ming-Qing times government was characterized by an increasingly well-funded and extensive

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Bureaucracy

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The Chinese response to Jesuit priests who attempted to introduce science into their societies was general

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Indifference

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Confucianism in Imperial China advocated the idea that the state is identified with the

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Family writ large

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The Thin horse market shows that the Chinese viewed ______ as commodities to be bought and sold

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Women

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The Qing policy of ______ refers to the appointment of one Chinese and one Manchu to each key post in the central government

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Dyarchy

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By the 19 century, the most highly commercialize nonindustrial society in the world was that of

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China

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The Manchus succeeded the

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Ming Dynasty

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The main fighting force of the Manchus was the

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Banner men

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The mandarins were powerful

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Bureaucrats

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The chief threat to the Ming Dynasty came from the

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Mongols

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For poor peasant household, after about harvesting faced with high taxes, the sale of a ____ often seems preferable to the sale of ancestral land

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Daughter

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Most girls in the Ming and Qing china were subjected to the cruel and deep formative procedure of

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Foot binding

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The ‘mouse that swallowed the elephant’ refers to _____ control China

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Manchus

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The Manchu founded the _____ Dynasty

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Qing

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In his edict to King George III of England, the Chinese emperor Qianlong justified restrictions on trade with England by emphasizing Chinese

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Self-sufficiency

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As a sign of submission to the Manchus, Chinese had to wear their hair in

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A queue

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The boundary dispute between the Russian tsar and the Qing was settled by the Treaty of

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Nerchinsk

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The Manchu dynasty in 18th-century benefited from the long confident rains of the emperors _____ and _____

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Qinglong and Kangxi

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In 1793 the British government sent the _______ mission to China to negotiate the opening of Ports among other issues

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McCartney

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Glasford empires of the Islamic world where the____ , centered in Turkey, the ____, centered in Persia, and the ____, centered in India

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Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals

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From the Balkan peninsula, Ottoman controlled extended Northwest as far as the _____ river

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Danube

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Suleyman the magnificent and his Ottoman armies laid siege to the city of _____ from 1526 to 1529

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Vienna

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The successful expansion of the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on the size and loyalty of its

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Military

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In 1389 the Ottomans defeated the Serbs at the battle of

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The Ottoman Sultan ______ captured Constantinople
Mehmed II
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Muslim religious law is called
Sharia
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Where the elite fighting force of the Ottoman Empire
Janissaries
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Ottoman sultans insured stability of succession by the practice of
Fratricide
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In the 16th century Ottoman Empire, the ulama became a branch of the _____ under single religious authority
Government
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The ulama fell under a single religious authority, the ____ _____
Grand Mufti
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The primary function of the ____ under the Ottoman Empire was to take full responsibility for the well-being of each member of their religious community
Millets
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The Ottoman sultans chief minister was called a
Grand Vizter
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To sustain the quality of slave troops, the Ottomans developed a unique institution: the provincial slave Levy, or
Devshirme
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Contemporaries of Solomon I include king ____ of England, king ____ of France, and King _____ of Spain
Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V
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Safavids belonged to the ____ sect of Islam
Shi'ite
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The Safavids had begun in the 14th century as hereditary turkey spiritual leaders of the Sunni ____ order, in the Northwest Iranian provence of Azerbaijan
Sufi
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The Safavid Sufi, ____ extended his sovereignty of the southern Caucasus, Azerbaijan, the Tigers Euphrates Valley, and all of Western Iran by 1506
Iismail
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In the long run, the most impressive aspect of Safavid was the cultural and intellectual ____ that Iran enjoyed in the 16th and 17th centuries
Renaissance
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Babur was the founder of the ____ dynasty in India
Mughal
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Akbar's contemporary on the throne of England was
Elizabeth I
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The Mughal ruler _____ developed his divine faith which was one example of the great religious toleration of his regime
Akbar
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The predominant religion in Mughal India was
Islam
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The son of Shah Jahan, Who killed his brother, imprisoned his father, and then assumed the throne himself, was
Awrangzeb
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Awrangzeb's persecution of non-Muslims would contribute to the _____ rebellion
Marathas
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The two predominant sects of Islam are ____ and ____
Sunni and Shi'ite
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The growing domination of the world seas and continents by _____ allowed them to contain or to bypass major Islamic Lands, contributing to the decline of the Islamic empires
Europeans
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The first Jesuit to be granted and audience with the Ming emperor was
Matteo Ricci
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The importance of the Treaty of Nerchinsk was
China had to treat the Russians as equals
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Which statement is the most accurate concerning the Qing dynasty
They maintained a considerable amount of continuity with the Ming
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The peasant revolt that brought down the Ming Dynasty was led by
Li Zicheng
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Which best describes the course main China followed after the death of Emperor Yong-Lo
China to return to its policy of isolation
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The best-known artistic achievements of the Ming era were the famous
Blue and white porcelain objects
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The Qing's first formal diplomatic relations with the European power was with
Russians
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The dispute between Jesuits and Dominicans and China over the policy of accommodating the Chinese tradition of ancestor worship is known as
The Rites Controversy
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What was the Confucian view of society
Patriarchal
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The Great Wall of China primarily was a defense against what people
Mongols
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What were the benefits of the tribute system to those states willing to participate in it
Participation in the Ming dynasty nobility
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What is generally considered China's greatest novel?
The dream of the red chamber