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Social
* 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.
Culture
* 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.
Religion
* 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.
Interaction
* 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.
Politics
* 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.
Technology
* 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.
Economy
* 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.
Demography
* 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.