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8 Cards in this Set
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Social
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* Trade between the Asian nations had been peaceful until the Portuguese arrived.
* China and Japan mostly isolated themselves from the Europeans, Japanese persecuting and yet keeping a close eye on them. *Scholar-gentry revival in China, Neo-Confucians prevail. Men over women, old over young. Growing dependant peasantry. * Students critical of their teachers and women searching for more rights went into underground movements in Ming China. |
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Culture
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* Introduced warfare to normally peaceful trading.
* Chinese examination system expanded; more emphasis on education. * Japanese Chiristians become persecuted. * Novel writing came into being in Ming China, creating classics such as The Water Margin, Monkey, and The Golden Lotus. |
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Religion
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* Conversions were met with open hostility by the Muslims, and both the Muslims and upper-caste Hindus refused to convert.
* Chinese indifferent to conversions. * Christianity used by the Japanese to crush Buddhist rebellion. Then drivin out and persecuted. * Only managed to convert few, low-caste Asians. * Spain conquered an island, and the inhabitants assimilated their traditions and the Catholic faith. Not a true conversion. |
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Interaction
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* Trade between the Asian nations had always been peaceful before.
*Portuguese goods were not acceptable to Asian standards, so they captured a few stratigic points, trying to monopolize trade. * Limited contact with China, who rejected trade. * Japan first embraced Europeans, taking in technological innovations before seeing them as a threat and driving all but the Dutch out. * Muslims and Hindus were not friendly, but would trade. * Eventually gave up trying to control trade and fit into the origional system. |
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Politics
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* Portugal could not maintain a colony in Asia, but sought to try to monopolize trade. That failed.
* Emperor Hongwu of Ming China instituted radical reforms to dampen the power of bureaucrats and female consorts, and to promote the peasantry's lot. The latter went in reverse, though. * Japan had three uniting leaders, one right after another, who brought the daimyo under control and ended the Feudal age. * Japan and China isolated themselves from European invasion, but Japan's closer watch allowed them to outmanuever the Europeans in later years where China was overwhelmed. |
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Technology
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* Japanese adopted European weapons, such as muskets and cannons for their Civil war, and they also aquired things such as clocks and printing.
* Chinese gain new foods from the Americas, via the Europeans. * Portuguese caravels and galleons made them a large naval power when they first arrived in South East Asia. |
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Economy
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* The Arab trading was based in glass, carpet, and tapestries. India in cotton textiles. China in paper, porcelain, and silk. European products were sneered at.
* Trade between the Asian nations had always been peaceful before. *Portuguese captured a few stratigic points, such as Ormuz and Malacca, trying to monopolize trade. * Limited contact with China, who rejected most trade. Japan would only trade with the Dutch. * Europeans eventually gave up trying to control trade and fit into the origional system. |
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Demography
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* Portuguese came first, taking certain key cities, but never really invading the mainland.
* China's population boomed with the American crops. * Very few Europeans in Asian at any given time. * The end of the Japanese civil war could have stabalized the population and allowed it to grow. |