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East Asian gov't in 1500: a centralized bureaucracy with a very strong monarch, and a bureaucracy selected with a Confucian civil service examination.
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(Ming) China
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East Asian gov't in 1500: a Chinese-style centralized government, but with a weaker
monarch and a civil service staffed by a Confucian scholar class defined both by heredity and by performance on civil service exams. |
Korea (Choson)
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East Asian gov't in 1500: A fragmented country under the rule of warriors. No civil service examination and no effective central government
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(Warring States Japan)
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East Asian gov't in 1500: A Chinese-style centralized government with a king, and with a bureaucracy selected with a Confucian civil service exam. Not as much social mobility as China.
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Vietnam
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East Asian gov't in 1500: looked Confucian in structure but did not use the civil service exam.
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The Kingdom of the Ryūkyūs
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1500s: South Asian merchants traded with the
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Malay peninsula and Sumatra (and sometimes with Java)
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1500s: Overseas Chinese ran trading networks linking
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southern China with Southeast Asia.
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1500s: The Kingdom of the Ryūkyūs linked
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Korea and Japan,
and sometimes China, with Southeast Asia |
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1500s: Within maritime Southeast Asia, there was trade between the Spice Islands (Moluccas) and points west---
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the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Java.
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After 1500, WHO muscled in on SE Asian trade.
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the Portuguese
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1500s: Southeast Asia has kingdoms, like in China but 2
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1. without centralized
control 2. without a non-aristocratic bureaucracy |
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1500s: Important political entities in S and SE Asia are what from Java (1), (Malay peninsula 2), (Siam 3)
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1. Majapahit
2. Malacca (Melaka) 3. Ayudhya |
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1500s: South Asia lacks the sort of unified strong government we see in ... but the many kingdoms there are stronger than the kingdoms ...
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China; of Southeast Asia.
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1500s: In the North of SA, there were... In the south there were ...
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sultanates; Hindu kingdoms
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1500s: In Ceylon (Sri Lanka), there were two ...plus a ...
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Buddhist kingdoms; Hindu
kingdom. |
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1500s: The people are ...,
not .... Those governments are not ... |
subjects, not citizens; their governments
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1500s: ... is the dominant religion in Central Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia
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Islam
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1500s: ... is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia
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Theravada Buddhism
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1500s: ... is the dominant form of Buddhism in Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam. Confucianism still influences China, Korea, Vietnam, and, to a lessor extent, Japan
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Mahayana Buddhism
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1500s: ... is dominant in Tibet and Mongolia
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Tibet Buddhism
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1500s: ...is dominant in India.
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Hinduism
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1500s: ... is strong in the Philippines
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Christianity
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1500s: Ruled not by Chinese but by ..., together with a lay Tibetan aristocracy.
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Tibetan monks
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Dalai Lamas rose to secular as well as spiritual power with the aid of ... in the 16th century
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Mongols
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The 4th Dalai Lama was
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a Mongol, not a Tibetan
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1500: Tibetan society can be divided into three groups:
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monks, aristocrats, and serfs.
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1500: What’s a serf? Not a ... (they cannot be sold), but someone who is .... Many serfs were ... serfs.
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slave; bound to the land; temple
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1500: Was Tibet a theocracy?
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Not really, since the monks shared power with a lay aristocracy.
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1500: Were Tibetans nomads?
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Some were, but most were not.
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1500: Was Tibet controlled by China during the Ming dynasty?
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Not at all.
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1500: The languages of the Tibetans are very different from ..., both in ....
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Chinese; their spoken and their written forms
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1500: Tibetan Buddhism is very different from Chinese-style ...
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Mahayana Buddhism
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1500: Tibetan society and government gave much more power and status to who than China did.
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monks
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1500: Tibetan women could have WHAT? (something impossible in China).
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more than one husband at a time
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1500s: Tibet was not ruled by
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Confucian bureaucrats.
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1500s: Central Asia: ... was spread by Arab, Persian, and Turkic ... (and some ...) who traveled along the ....
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Islam; merchants; Sufi missionaries; Silk Road
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Among the groups converted were the ..., who used to be ...
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Uighurs; Christians
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By 1600, Central Asia was mostly ....
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Muslim
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Maritime Southeast Asia: ... was spread by... from South Asia.
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Islam; merchants
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Malacca, on the Malay peninsula, was one ...
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early Islamic trading centre.
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The Mughals saw themselves as ...-... descendants of ... and ....
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Turkish-Mongolian; Chinghis Khan; Timur the Lame
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Mongols: continued Turkish tradition of bloody battles among brothers when
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their father, the ruler, died.
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The Mughals Enjoyed Timurid gardens, in which they held parties at which they: 3
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1. recited poetry
2. drank 3. and used drugs. |
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The Mughals like to stay on the move, living in both
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palaces and tents.
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The Mughals: these 2 languages were used at court, along with what became:
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Persian
Turkic Hindi-Urdu |
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Muslim Turks from Central Asia, who also spoke Persian
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Mughals
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Mughal rulers: (1483-1530)
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Babur
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Mughal rulers: ( 1530-1540, 1555-1556)
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Humayun
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Mughal rulers: (1556-1605)
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Akbar
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Mughal rulers: (1605-1627)
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Jahangir
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Mughal rulers: (1627-1658)
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Shah Jahan
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Mughal rulers: (1658-1707)
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Aurangzeb
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Hindu warriors from Rajasthan in northwestern India...
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Rajputs
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a new religious group that took up arms in self-defense in the Punjab.
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Sikhs
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a Hindu group from western India who rose up in the 17th century under the leadership of Shivaji.
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Marathas
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Mughal Government:
Centralized, but staffed by ..., who led armies personally loyal to them. |
warrior-aristocrats
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Mughal Government:
Collected ...(with the help of zamindars) |
taxes on agriculture
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Mughal Government:
Ritual, both secular and religious, was used to ... |
enhance the authority of top officials
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Mughal Government:
Personal nature of ties that held the government together led to fighting at the top over succession, with emperors ... |
being overthrown by their own sons
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Mughal economy:
Was the world’s leading producer of |
cotton textiles
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Religion under the Mughals:
Akbar’s abortive attempt to create a ...that would unite Hindus and Muslims. He also encouraged religious debates at his court, raising hope among ... that he would convert. |
new religion; Christian
missionaries |
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Religion under the Mughals:
The birth of the ... religion, South Asia’s first indigenous monotheistic religion. |
Sikh
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Sikhs are neither ..., though they share the ... belief in reincarnation and
... monotheism. |
Muslims nor Hindus; Hindu; Muslim
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Though Sikhs are important, they remain ... in South Asia outside of the Punjab region.
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a small religious minority
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China 1368-1644
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Ming dynasty
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The Ming represents an interlude of Chinese control between these two non Chinese dynasties:
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Mongol and Manchu
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The Ming: style: the emperor dominated his
bureaucracy |
Authoritarian
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Ming:
Staffed by men ... |
selected from the gentry
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Ming:
Central government reached down to the ... level. |
district
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Ming:
Below that, local gentry maintained law and order, with the help of the ... system |
10-family mutual responsibility
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Ming:
Preferred to deal with other countries via the: |
hierarchical tributary system
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Ming:
early 15th century voyages of Zheng He were intended to attract |
more countries to the tributary system.
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Ming:
Korea, the Ryūkyūs, and Vietnam were |
Faithful tribute partners
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Ming:
Fought against ... in ... in 1590s |
Japan; Korea
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Ming:
In Japan: a shogun ... early in the 15th century but soon stopped. |
offered tribute
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Ming:
Tibet, Manchuria, and Mongolia |
were not regular parts of the tribute system.
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Ming:
Southeast Asian countries and even Bengal |
sometimes offered tribute.
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Ming:
also led to ..., including the growing use of... But no .... |
monetization; silver coins; capitalism
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The Ming economy:
No true capitalism most manufacturing was done by people who ... to manufacture those goods. |
owned the tools they used
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The Ming:
No capitalists: only |
rich merchants
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2 Ming pieces of pop culture:
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1. drama, particularly opera
2. fiction, particularly novels |
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The Ming fall:
Murphey appears to blame ... in the government , especially among the .... |
corruption; eunuchs
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The Ming fall:
He also mentions the cost of the Ming... |
war with the Japanese over control of Korea
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The Ming fall:
Murphey doesn’t mention other economic causes, including a shortfall of ..., and smaller harvests because of bad .... |
silver; weather
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The Portuguese in South Asia:
They encountered Indian ..., whom they tried to put under the authority of ... |
Christians; the Pope
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The Portuguese in South Asia:
They made ... their base--it remained Portuguese until 1961. |
Goa
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The Portuguese in South Asia:
Jesuit missionaries tried to take advantage of .... religious curiosity but were unable to convert him. |
Akbar’s
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The Portuguese in South Asia:
In Sri Lanka, they were more successful in |
converting local leaders.
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the Society of Jesus is
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Jesuits
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Catholic missionaries:
in Japan- |
a few decades of success, then a rapid collapse.
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Catholic missionaries:
China-- |
a permanent but small presence
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Catholic missionaries:
Sri Lanka-- |
more political success than success among the overall population.
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Catholic missionaries:
Vietnam and Korea |
not important until later.
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The Dutch:
set up VOC, or |
The Dutch East India Company
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The Dutch:
Set up a base in ... in 1619 |
Java
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The Dutch:
Established a fort in ... in 1624 |
Taiwan
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The Dutch:
Captured ... in 1641 |
Malacca
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The Dutch:
Allowed a trading post on Deshima in ... |
Nagasaki harbor
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The Dutch:
Took over ... in 1658 |
Ceylon
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The British:
Went to Asia under the guise of |
the East India company
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The British:
Confined to outposts in |
South Asia
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How were the Dutch and the English different
from the Spanish and the Portuguese? |
They were less interested in God than they were in gold.
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Other Western nations in Asia:
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France and Russia
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Limited West:
No overall Western ... superiority |
scientific or technological
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Limited West:
Except in 3 |
military, nautical, and astronomical matters.
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Limited West:
Much was happening in Asia at that time that |
had nothing or little to do with the West
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From Jurchen to ... in 1635 (Successors to Jin dynasty?)
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Manchu;
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But not all Jurchen became Manchu, and not all Manchu had been Jurchen- ...was more important than who your ancestors were in determining if you were ... or not.
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political loyalty; Manchu
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The Manchu were not considered part of the in the 17th century
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Chinese “nation”
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How were the Manchu able to conquer the Chinese, who greatly outnumbered them?
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Chinese opened the gates in the Great Wall for them.
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Traditional Chinese:
inheritance |
divided among sons
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Traditional Chinese: elite defined by 2
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land-ownership and Confucian degrees
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Society in Manchu China:
Some hereditary positions--3 |
bondservants, bannermen and
member of the Chinese Army of the Green Standard |
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Society in Manchu China:
Dual administration: at higher levels of government, bannermen were placed |
alongside Chinese officials of the same rank
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Society in Manchu China:
Chinese officials had to pass |
the Confucian civil service exam.
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Society in Manchu China:
Bondservants were used to offset |
the power of Confucian officials.
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Society in Manchu China:
Who bound their feet? |
the Chinese, but not the Manchu
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Manchu Power:
China was considered to be |
part of the Manchu empire
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Manchu Power:
2 Great emperors: 1. (1662-1722) 2. (1736-95) |
1. Kangxi
2. Qianlong |
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Confucianism under Manchu rule is called
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Neo-Confucianism
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Neo-Confucianism:
a moral metaphysics, in which all important issues |
become moral issues and therefore cannot be debated.
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China Under the Qing:
no ... society permitted |
civil
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Evidential learning:
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a retreat from dangerous philosophical issues?
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Popular Culture under the Manchu: urban culture was
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non-distinct
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Popular Culture under the Manchu:
The Scholars and Dream of the Red Chamber is: |
vernacular fiction.
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Popular Culture under the Manchu:
Religion included secret societies like the |
White Lotus groups
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The economy of Qing China:
Traded with the West using the Canton or ... system |
Guangzhou
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The economy of Qing China:
the population |
grew
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Manchu Ritual and Power:
They had many |
ritual stances
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Manchu Ritual and Power:
when dealing with the Han Chinese they were |
Confucian rulers
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Manchu Ritual and Power:
...to the Manchu-Mongolian subjects |
Khans
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Manchu Ritual and Power:
...to the Tibetan subjects |
Bodhisattvas
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Manchu Ritual and Power:
They even tamed their own |
shamans
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Before Tokugawa: The shogunate:
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Muromachi
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Before Tokugawa: the Muromachi shoguns were
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Ashikaga shoguns
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Before Tokugawa: The Muromachi shogunate exercised less authority after the
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Onin War
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Before Tokugawa:
Daimyos (1) Buddhists (2) and merchants (3) |
1. began acting like kings of their domains
2. began forming armed communities 3. established independent cities. |
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Before Tokugawa:
The economy was |
growing
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Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (invaded Korea), and
Tokugawa Ieyasu were the |
three unifiers
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Who established a shogunate in 1600?
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Ieyasu
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A military government in which the leader is officially the emperor’s chief military officer. The emperor continued to reign, but the shogun wielded the greatest power.
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a Shogunate
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The Tokugawa:
Took swords away from |
the peasants
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The Tokugawa:
pulled who off the land? |
samurai
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The Tokugawa:
Crushed independent |
religious organizations
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The Tokugawa:
The gov't was |
decentralized
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The Tokugawa:
was ruled by |
warriors
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The Tokugawa:
urban culture was |
distinctive
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The Tokugawa:
had itself |
isolated from the world
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The Baku-han system:
Tokugawa house controlledthe most |
land
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The Baku-han system:
Domains were rearranged to |
strengthen Tokugawa control
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The Baku-han system:
Daimyo were required to spend |
half theirtime in Edo
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The Baku-han system:
Religions were |
strictly controlled
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The Baku-han system:
foreign trade was |
strictly limited
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Tokugawa economic and social:
Population size ... by mid 18th-century |
stabilized;
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Tokugawa economic and social:
Merchants... |
grew wealthier, and more independent
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Tokugawa economic and social:
Samurai became ... |
bureaucrats
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Tokugawa urban culture:
Ukiyo-e were |
woodblock paintings
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Women in Tokugawa Japan:
after marriage .... They also lost ...they had once enjoyed. |
They had to move into their husband’s home; inheritance rights
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Women in Tokugawa Japan:
Divorce |
could not be initiated by women
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Women in Tokugawa Japan:
wives had to allow who in their homes? |
Concubines
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Decentralization helped Japan to
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nurture its competitive spirit
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Why didn’t decentralization help India the way it helped Japan?
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Japanese spoke the same language and had ethnic homogeneity
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An island chain between the main Japanese islands and Taiwan--inhabited by people related to, but not the same as, the Japanese.
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the Ryūkyūs
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The Ryūkyūs were an independent ... in the 15th and 16th centuries. Taken over by the ... of Satsuma in 1609, which controlled it behind the scenes until 1879, when ... absorbed it.
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kingdom; Han; Japan
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Ryūkyūan culture:
Adopted ..., and Mazu worship, from ... |
Confucianism; China
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Ryūkyūan culture:
Japan gave it ... but it had its own indigenous ... as well |
Buddhism; shamanism
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Ryūkyūan culture:
... taught Ryūkyūans how to produce glazed pottery. |
Korea
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Ryūkyūans gave Japan 3
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karate,
the shamisen, sweet potatoes. |
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Chosŏn Korea:
Led by a |
a king
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Chosŏn Korea:
Its bureaucracy needed |
to pass civil service exams
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Chosŏn Korea:
its gov't was |
centralized
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Chosŏn Korea:
hereditary status compared to China? |
more important in Korea
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Chosŏn Korea:
was gov'd by |
yangban
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Chosŏn Korea:
yangban were |
members of an hereditary land owning Confucian-scholar elite who had passed the civil service exam.
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Chosŏn Korea:
economically |
underdevelopd
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Chosŏn Korea:
trade with other countries was |
minimal
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Chosŏn Korea:
within Korea there was little use of |
currency
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Chosŏn Korea:
Yangban could not engage in ... |
commerce
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Chosŏn Korea:
merchants could not |
become yangban
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Chosŏn Korea:
Koreans considered the Manchu to be |
barbarians
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Chosŏn Korea:
even after the Manchu replaced the Ming they were |
A faithful tributary partner of China
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Chosŏn Korea:
wary of Japan, because of ... and because of the ... of the 1590s. |
pirates; invasions
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Chosŏn Korea:
No ... were allowed in Korea |
Westerners
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Chosŏn Korea:
Han’gŭl was |
an alphabet common for fiction
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Chosŏn Korea:
popular ... also emerged: P’ansori (one person opera) and mask dance (humorous plays mocking monks and yangban) |
drama
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Vietnam under the Le:
The Le emperors ... in the early 16th century, though they ...until the late 18th century. |
lost control of their country; stayed on the throne
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Vietnam under the Le:
In the north, the Trinh family .... |
ruled
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Vietnam under the Le:
In the south, the Nyugen ...and ... farther south. |
exercised control; seized territory
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Europeans in Vietnam:
In the 1600s, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English, and the Dutch all .... They all were |
set up trading posts in Vietnam; unable to make much money.
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Europeans in Vietnam:
The French sent missionaries, who ...and created a way ... |
converted a few Vietnamese; to write Vietnamese phonetically.
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Vietnam-a Confucian state:
A rebellion in the late 18th century overthrew the 3 |
The Le, the Trinh, and the Nguyen
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Vietnam-a Confucian state:
a ... survivor, with French help, seized control of ... in 1802. |
Nguyen; the entire country
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Vietnam-a Confucian state:
The Nguyen survivor ran a ... government |
Confucian-style
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Why did the Mughals fall?
moral flaws in Mughal rulers like |
Aurangzeb
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Why did the Mughals fall?
bad economic policies like |
excessive taxes
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Why did the Mughals fall?
failure to keep up with ... |
the latest technology
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Why did the Mughals fall?
There were barriers to ..., especially under a predatory government. |
keeping India unified
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Weaknesses in the Mughal Empire:
disputes for |
succession
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Weaknesses in the Mughal Empire:
rule was |
predatory
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Weaknesses in the Mughal Empire:
religious, linguistic, and caste |
division
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Weaknesses in the Mughal Empire:
local leaders had |
their own armies
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Aurangzeb overextended the empire in battles...
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against the Marathas
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1616: First British ... established
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“factory”
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1639: The British acquire ...
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Madras
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1687: The British settle in
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Bombay (Mumbai)
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1690 The British acquire
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Calcutta (Kolkata)
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1757: The ...incident leads to the British takeover of Bengal
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Black Hole of Calcutta
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1757: The British defeat ... in India.
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their French rivals
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1793 The ... for zamindars.
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Permanent settlement
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How did the British gain control?:
There was no longer a ... for all of India |
single effective government
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How did the British gain control?:
Increasing ... made Indians vulnerable to British economic power. |
commercialization
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How did the British gain control?:
British gained a footing as ... for local Indian rulers. |
tax-collectors
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How did the British gain control?:
They advanced with superior ...and ..., plus a lot of help from Indians. |
military tactics ; technology
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How did the British gain control?:
They didn’t rule all of India directly. Instead, much of India was left under the control of.... The British dispatched “...” to help those princes govern. |
princely states; residents
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Silver meant that it was easier
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to engage in commercial activity
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This created ...between the rich
and the poor |
an even greater gap
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Though northern India had been under ...for several centuries by 1800, the majority religion continued to be ....
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Muslim rule ; Hinduism
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1800s, Islam was ... in northern India
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stronger
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1800s In the Punjab, ... grew into the dominant religion.
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Sikhism
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1800s: Ceylon had only a few ...
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Muslims
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1800s The Sinhalese in Ceylon tended to be
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Theravada Buddhists
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1800s The Tamils in Ceylon tended to be ...
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Hindus
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Nepalese majority... is sometimes hard to distinguish from Buddhism
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Hinduism
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The British attacked ... in the 19th century and won battles but were unable to establish lasting control
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Nepal
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19th c:
Nepalese ... served in the British military. |
Gurkas
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19th c:
The British conquer all of ... and make it a separate crown colony, rather than making it a part of India |
Ceylon
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When did the West catch up with and then surpass the Asian powers? It caught up with India in the ... century (though it didn’t pass India in cloth production until the early ... century), and with China in the ...
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18th; 19th; 19th
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The joining of science and technology in the 19th century followed the .... It didn’t cause it.
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Industrial Revolution
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Why did the Industrial Revolution take place in Europe? Europe had more ..., more efficient ... for channeling that ..., and more convenient access to sources of ... for the new technology.
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capital to invest; institutions; investment; power
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The West did not have an intrinsic cultural advantage. Instead, it .... (The colonies provided capital and food, allowing the West to concentrate on ...)
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got lucky; building modern industry
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British India:
How did the British win? Superior 2 |
military tactics and technology
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Pre-Nationalist Resistance: was a ..not a nationalist rebellion.
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local rebellion,
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The impact of the British presence:
Increasing ... of agriculture |
commercialization
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The impact of the British presence:
Caste and jati divisions .... |
harden
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The impact of the British presence:
Religious divisions |
harden as well
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The impact of the British presence:
The British favored 2 over .... |
Sikhs and Hindus; Muslims
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Western Orientalism led to a
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Hindu Renaissance
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Proto-nationalism appears as the British begin to make India
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one nation
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an imperial power is forced to ... some of its subjects in order to obtain their assistance in exploiting those human and material resources.
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educate
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Imperialism is justified by ...
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racism
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sometimes imperialism leads to ... of colonized societies.
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modernization
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... crippled agriculture in Asia in the last quarter of the 19th century, causing millions to die of starvation and disease
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Bad weather (El Niño)
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Solidifying British rule in India:
Just as the Tokugawa did in Japan, the British tried to solidify the social order by |
identifying castes.
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Solidifying British rule:
The British also divided Indians by treating different ... groups differently. |
religious
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Solidifying British rule:
The rise of two written languages in northern India, ... reinforced religious divisions. |
Hindi and Urdu
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British colonies:
the ...kob falls under British control |
kingdom of Burma
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British colonies:
...sm also become part of the British empire. |
Singapore and Malaya
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British colonies:
...sm also become part of the British empire. |
Singapore and Malaya
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British colonies:
Britain tries to gain hegemony in ... but fails to pry it completely loose from the Manchu colonial grasp. |
Tibet
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The French in Southeast
Asia: The ... of Indochina |
creation
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The French in Southeast
Asia: Cambodia is seized and the ... are forced to relinquish claims to it. |
Thais
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The French in Southeast
Asia: The principalities of ... also fall under French control and form a colony called .... |
Laos; Laos
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The Dutch slowly seize control of more and more of the “...” and place both the people and the land under their control
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Netherlands East Indies
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The Americans replace the ... as the imperial overlords of the Philippines--the US President says the US should “Christianize” the Filipinos.
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Spanish
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Impact of colonial rule:
1) Increase of commercialization of 2) New ... created where there was none before 3) increasing ethnic |
1) agriculture
2) nations 3) diversity |
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Siam (Thailand) remains free from colonial rule by playing
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the French and the British off against each other.
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Japan remains free of colonial rule by 2
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modernizing very
quickly, and then building its own colonial empire. |
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Qing China remained free of direct colonial rule because
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there were many ppl to fight over it
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Nationalism is a commitment to the political entity known as the ...
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nation-state.
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Nationalism is not ...--it must be ...,
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natural; taught
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The Canton system --Foreigners confined to ...
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Guangzhou
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The ... War (1839-1942)
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Opium
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Why was China unable to resist the West? T... weakness, unprepared for an attack from ..., could not mobilize ... against the West.
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technological; that direction; all its resources
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The ... War of 1856-1860
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Arrow
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The ... rebellion (1850-1864)
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Taiping
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The ... Rebellion (1853-1873)
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Nien
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Two ... rebellions,
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Muslim
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Why do peasants rebel?
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For survival
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The Qing responded to the challenge of the West with “...,” an attempt to implant the latest Western technology, both military and industrial, in China.
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Self-strengthening
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Self-strengthening failed because the Manchu, as an ..., could not promote nationalism, and because Confucianism placed ... rather than engineers and merchants in charge.
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ethnic minority; scholars
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Could not overcome the contradiction between ... values.
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Confucian and Western
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Japan underwent a “...” in 1868 that put Japan under the control of a young leadership dedicated to building a strong and prosperous Japan.
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Meiji Restoration
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What did the Meiji government do?:
Ended ..., creating a unified constitutional monarchy (emperor restored) |
feudalism
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What did the Meiji government do?:
ended ... privileges and implemented universal ... |
samurai; conscription
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What did the Meiji government do?:
imposed a national ... tax. |
land
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What did the Meiji government do?:
Created Japanese |
nationalism.
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Japanese imperialism:
... in the north and the ... in the south became part of Japan proper. |
Hokkaido; Ryūkyūs
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Japanese imperialism:
Japan began flexing its muscles in ... and then, in 1884-94, fought a war with ... over it. Japan won and got, as its prize, the new colony of ... |
Korea; China; Taiwan
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Victory over ... in 1904-05 gave Japan ...
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Russia; Korea
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Rivalry among the ... prepared Japan for the competitive environment of the modern world.
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han
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Modern imperialism was ..., in that it was concerned primarily for the financial benefit of the imperial power
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predatory
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colonizers found they had to promote the ... and ... of those they colonized in order to exploit them more efficiently.
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health; education
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Key figures in the Meiji Restoration:
Saigo Takamori |
The Last Sumurai
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Key figures in the Meiji Restoration:
Yamagta ... |
Aritomo
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Key figures in the Meiji Restoration:
Ito ... |
Hirobumi
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China disintegrates:
Defeat in the First ... War (1894-95) |
Sino-Japanese
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100 ... in 1898 failed to change China.
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days of reform
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The ... Rebellion, 1900
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Boxer
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early Chinese nationalists:
tried to redefine Confucianism to make it compatible with the modern world. |
Kang Youwei
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early Chinese nationalists:
Belief in Social Darwinism led him to abandon Confucianism |
Liang Qichao
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Ignored Confucianism. Promoted his Three People’s Principles instead.
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Sun Yat-sen
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Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles: 3
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1. Nationalism
2. Democracy 3. "People's Livelihood" |
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the Republic of China, highjacked by militarists:
... seizes control. He is followed by ...: 1916-1927; after that is |
Yuan Shikai; warlords; Guomindang
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Before the fall of the Qing, it loses traditional ...(Okinawa and Korea to ..., Vietnam to ...).
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tributary states; Japan; France
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After the fall of the Qing, Mongolia ..., then becomes the first
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gains its independence; Soviet satellite
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Tibet also moves toward self-government under
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the Dalai Lama.
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The Boxer Rebellion:
More an ... rebellion than a nationalistic movement. |
ethnocentric
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The Boxer Rebellion:
was supported by the Empress Dowager but not by much of the ... |
Chinese military
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The Indian National Congress was founded by a Brit in 1885. Became a
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nationalist organization
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Stimulants to Indian nationalism:
Anger over ... deaths |
famine
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Stimulants to Indian nationalism:
growing social isolation of British (after their ...) |
wives joined them
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Stimulants to Indian nationalism:
growing gap between ... |
rich and poor
|
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Stimulants to Indian nationalism:
Indian military participation in |
World War I
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Stimulants to Indian nationalism:
The ... of 1919 |
Amritsar massacre
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British-educated but used traditional symbols to rouse the masses. Created a non-violent protest movement
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Gandhi
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British-educated socialist. For him, non-violence was only a tactic.
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Nehru
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British-educated Muslim. He was concerned that Muslims would be dominated by Hindus in an independent India. Eventually he called for a separate Muslim state.
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Jinnah
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The British took over ... from the Dutch in 1801, making it Britain’s first crown colony.
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Ceylon
|
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Buddhist nationalism in Ceylon:
Buddhists responded to the British challenge to the traditional way of life by a) identifying Buddhism with ...and b) reforming Buddhism to ... (looking more like Protestant Christianity). |
a) Sinhalese national identity
b) make it more modern |
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In 1919, in imitation of the Indian example, a Congress Party was founded in Ceylon. It included both
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Sinhalese and Tamils
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Ceylon moves toward independence:
... in 1932, including women (first in Asia). |
Universal suffrage
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Ceylon ... gained in 1948.
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independence
|
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First, China had to abandon its culturalism, which the elite began to do with the ..., when it began to reject Confucianism.
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May 4, 1919, movement
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The choices China faced were similar to the choices many other Asian countries faced in the 20th century: 2
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Fascism or Communism
|
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China’s ... War:
1945-1949 |
Civil
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... is usually called “reactionary”
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Fascism
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Communism is usually called “...”
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revolutionary
|
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Democracy and socialism are usually called ... paths to political, social, and economic change.
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evolutionary
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Note: Fascism denies .... Communism
says they are real, but ... |
conflicts of interest are real; tries to eliminate them.
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Democracy recognizes that conflicts of interest are real, and tries to find ...
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a peaceful way to reconcile them
|
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Barrington Moore, in his Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, argues that ... determines whether it will be fascist, communist, or democratic
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how a government extracts the surplus necessary for industrialization
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fascism-- relies on ... to extract surplus from the ...
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landlords; peasants
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communism --extracts surplus directly from the people, because ...
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landlords have been weakened or eliminated
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the Philippines:
The ... had its roots in a 19th century movement for equality for native-born clergy. Three priests executed in 1872 are considered the first martyrs for Filipino ... |
independence movement; independence
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At first, Filipino meant a .... Later it came to mean the local people.
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Spaniard born in the Philippines
|
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The first Filipino ... (ilustrados--enlightened ones) were often at least partially of Chinese or Spanish descent.
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nationalists
|
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Philippine Rebellion against the Spanish in 1898 led to the ...takeover in 1900,
and an alliance between ...and a few ilustrados. |
US ;the US
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Under US control, the Philippines became the first colony to
promote mass . |
education
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The Dutch began allowing a few of the local Indonesian people to obtain a modern education. It is out of that educated elite that the first ... appeared.
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nationalists
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In the last decades of colonial rule, a Muslim League and an Indonesian Communist Party appeared, but the lead in the nationalist movement was taken by Sukarno’s ....
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Indonesian Nationalist Party
|
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There was no one country called Malaya before ...
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the British began constructing it
|
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The Malays began emphasizing their religion (...) and their purported local roots to distinguish themselves from the Chinese and the South Asians, and to claim that ...
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Islam; Malaysia is their country
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Until 1937, the British treated Burma as a province of ... rather than as a separate colony
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India
|
|
For the Burmese, just as with the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka,
... became a vehicle for asserting a distinctive national identity. |
Buddhism
|
|
Burmese nationalism also manifested itself through anti-
... riots in the 1930s |
Indian
|
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Siam (Thailand) was not a colony, but ... arose anyway.
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nationalism
|
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Thailand was able to escape from the restrictions of unequal treaties after
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World War I
|
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The modernizing Thai government used ... to unify the
country, creating a national ... hierarchy. |
Buddhism; Buddhist
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The military seized control of the country in 1932 and created a
constitutional monarchy. Why did the army do that? Often in a modernizing society, the military is the best 1, best 2, most modern, and most 3 institution. |
1. organized
2. equipped 3. nationalistic |
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Indochina:
Five separate administrative regions under overall 1 colonial rule: Cochinchina (south), Annam (central), Tonkin (north), Cambodia, and Laos. |
1. French
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Indochina:
The French showed little concern for 1 or 2. |
1. mass education
2. industrialization |
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Vietnamese nationalists formed a Vietnamese Nationalist Party modeled after the ... in China. It was crushed when it rose up in
revolt in 1930. |
Guomindang
(KMT) |
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After the Vietnamese Nat'st Party was crushed, a new nationalist party arose: the 1, led by 2.
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1. Indochinese Communist Party
2. Ho Chi Ming |
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Under the Meiji constitution that governed Japan from 1890 to
1945, Japan had an elected parliament (called the ...). |
Diet
|
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Japan had a constitution by the 1889, but it was not a democratic constitution--the government was not ...
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legally accountable to the people
|
|
Japan experimented with majority party rule between 1918 and
1932, but then . |
abandoned it
|
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In the 1930s Japan also denied any real
internal conflicts of interest--in other words, it looked .... |
fascist
|
|
War with China: starting with the seizure of
... in 1931-32 |
Manchuria
|
|
1 incident in 1937 led to all-out
fighting, including the Nanking massacre |
1. Marco Polo Bridge
|
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Japanese: Dec. 7, 1941
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Attack on the US at Pearl Harbor-
|
|
Japan seizes the ... in early 1942,
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Philippines
|
|
Japan grabs m..and..s in January and February, 1942
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Malaya and Singapore
|
|
Japan 1942, kicks the Dutch out of ...
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Indonesia
|
|
Japanese Attacks on India are
|
unsuccessful
|
|
Western colonialism unravels, as the West
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is shown to
be vulnerable. |
|
Japanese cruelty sparked wide-spread resentment--and
. |
nationalism
|
|
Communists often took the lead in the resistance, since
they were better at |
guerrilla warfare.
|
|
in 1945, Japan
|
is defeated
|
|
Aug 6, 1945 Japan
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Hiroshima
|
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Aug 9, 1945 Japan
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Nagasaki
|
|
The Japanese bombings were the first and only
|
use of an atom bomb in war
|
|
The MacArthur constitution gives Japan 1
government, equality for 2, freedom of 3 and press, freedom for 4 to organize. |
1. parliamentary
2. women 3. speech 4. workers |
|
The MacArthur constitution outlaws ... for Japan.
|
war
|
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what was conquered by the US in a bloody battle in spring, 1945
|
Okinawa
|
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Okinawa: Still has more US ...than all of the rest of Japan
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military personnel
|
|
The ... took a more active role in the anti-Japanese struggle in China.
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Communist Party
|
|
thought like a Confucian--he believed that
selfishness was the root of all evil, and that a selfless person could accomplish anything. Technical expertise was not necessary. |
Mao
|
|
set China’s economic
development back for a few years. The Cultural Revolution set it back for more than a decade. |
The Great Leap Forward
|
|
In the ..., Mao attacked the leaders
of his own Communist Party as well as the educated elite of the country |
Cultural Revolution
|
|
economic liberalization combined with political
authoritarianism. |
Deng Xiaoping:
|
|
In the spring of 1989, students and others began
demanding that the party be more accountable to the people. They occupied ... to press their demands. The government reaction was a bloody crackdown on June 4 in which the People’s Liberation Army attacked unarmed crowds. |
Tiananmen Square
|
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China: 1950--China seizes ...
|
Tibet
|
|
China: 1950-53 China participates in ...,
supporting North Korea |
the Korean War
|
|
China: 1962--a brief border war with ...
|
India
|
|
China: 1969--clashes along the border with the
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USSR (Russia)
|
|
China: 1979 -invades ... but is forced to retreat.
|
Vietnam
|
|
China: Recovers ...(1997) and ...(1999)
|
Hong Kong; Macao
|
|
1 was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945, during which time it began modernizing, and they began seeing themselves as different from other Chinese.
|
1. Taiwan
|
|
Taiwan was incorporated into ...’s Republic of China in 1945. Was never a part of the People’s Republic of China
|
Chiang Kai-shek
|
|
Taiwan resisted, but was forced under the
|
Kmt
|
|
Both Taiwan and Korea modernized under ...
rule: |
Japanese
|
|
... nationalism emerged under Japanese rule;
|
Korean
|
|
Korea had been one country for over 1,000 years. Even the Japanese didn’t split it. But the 1 and the 2 did that in 1945
|
1. US
2. USSR |
|
... (South Korea) formed in 1948, under
President |
Republic of Korea; Syngman Rhee
|
|
June 25, 1950, ... (North Korea) invades the south, starting the three-year
Korean War. |
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
|
|
1 overthrown in 1960. After a brief period of democracy, General 2 seizes power in 1961.
Under his leadership, Korea begins to industrialize (using the Japanese model for state-led growth). |
1. Rhee
2. Park Chung Hee |
|
1972 Park throws out the old constitution, creates
“Koreanized democracy” that makes him ... |
president for life.
|
|
1979 Park is ...by the head of his own
secret police |
assassinated
|
|
1979-80 General ... seizes control of the government in a coup in two parts. First, he
attacks his own army headquarters |
Chun Doo Hwan
|
|
May 18, 1980 Chun launches an attack on the city of Kwangju. At least 1,000 are killed. Chun then becomes ...
|
president
|
|
Popular demonstrations in Seoul in 1987 forced the
government to allow .... Chun’s comrade-in-arms win. |
elections for president
|
|
1992 Kim Young Sam, a former pro-democracy leader, joins
Chun’s party, wins the |
presidency,
|
|
1997 ..., a man both Park and Chun had tried to
kill, is elected president. |
Kim Dae-jung
|
|
...a former anti-Japanese
resistance fighter, ruled the north from 1948 until 1994. |
Kim Il Sung
|
|
Kim Il Sung's son ... has replaced him.
|
Kim Jung Il
|
|
The official ruling ideology in North Korea is not Communism
but |
Kim Il Sungism
|
|
Indira Gandhi ruled
|
India
|
|
where? widow of first prime minister became
prime minister herself (the first in the world) and then later her daughter became the president. |
Sri Lanka
|
|
Where? Benazir Bhutto was prime minister twice,
and almost a third time |
Pakistan
|
|
the widow of one ruler and the
daughter of another alternated as prime minster between 1991 and 2009. |
Bangladesh
|
|
Pakistan's founder
|
Jinnah
|
|
There were a lot of what of political leaders in Pakistan
|
assassinations
|
|
Myanmar now under
|
military rule
|
|
Chinese and non-Chinese: Indonesia and Malaysia
sites of |
greatest tension
|
|
the Philippines, East Timor clashing groups
|
Muslim-Christian
|
|
Myanmar, Vietnam fighting btwn:
|
Lowlander-highlander
|
|
imposed strong-handed rule on the Philippines from 1972 to 1986. Was overthrown by
“People Power.” |
Marcos
|
|
In 1962 the Burmese military seized control and
established “....” Have killed hundreds whenever pro-democracy protests erupted. |
Burmese socialism
|
|
Democracy movement led by Aung San’s daughter,
.... She won annulled 1990 election |
Suu Kyi
|
|
Thailand: Last ... was in 2006. There was an election, in
2007, which ... won. |
coup; civilians
|
|
Indonesia:
1949-1965 Sukarno-rule with support of |
Communist Party.
|
|
Indonesia:
1965 Attempted ... led to an anti- Communist bloodbath |
coup
|
|
Indonesia
1965-1998 Suharta’s ... stimulates economic growth. |
right-wing dictatorship
|
|
Indonesia:
1998-present. Stumbling steps toward ... |
democracy
|
|
Malaysia:
Communist (primarily Chinese) rebellion slowed progress toward ... |
independence
|
|
Malaysia:
Ruling party is a coalition of Malay, Chinese, and Indian parties. ... dominate |
Malays
|
|
Singapore:
Communal tensions with ... led to Singapore separating from ... in 1965. |
Malays; Malaysia
|
|
Singapore:
Under leadership of ..., Singapore became a trading and financial centre, making it very wealthy |
Lee Kuan Yew
|
|
Singapore:
There are elections, but the ... always wins |
ruling party
|
|
Indonesia: everyone is required to believe in ... Most are ...
|
one God; Muslims
|
|
Malaysia: Malays are supposed to be ...
|
Muslims
|
|
Thailand: to be a real Thai, you should be ...
Burmese also. |
Buddhist
|
|
Chinese maintain a separate cultural identity by
frequenting . |
Chinese temples
|
|
War
with the ... ended in 1954 with the division of Vietnam into a Communist north and an anti-Communist (but not democratic) south. |
French
|
|
Vietnam is united under a
... government in 1975. |
Communist
|
|
1945-75 War in
|
Vietnam
|
|
1947 Partition of
|
India
|
|
1950-53 ... War
|
Korean
|
|
1965 Massacre in
|
Indonesia
|
|
1966-76 Cultural Revolution in
|
China
|
|
1971 ... splits from Pakistan
|
Bangladesh
|
|
1975-78 Killing fields in
|
Cambodia
|
|
1977-2009 civil war in
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
richest, best-educated country in South Asia but
has had to endure violence between Sinhalese and Tamils for over 30 years (rival ethnic nationalisms with religious overtones). |
Sri Lanka
|
|
off-and-on again democracy with little economic growth. Product of Muslim nationalism
|
Pakistan
|
|
like Pakistan, off-and-on again democracy
Even poorer than Pakistan.Product of Bengali nationalism |
Bangladesh
|
|
was (and still is) caught in the middle, claimed by
India because its ruler in 1947 was Hindu but also claimed by Pakistan because the majority of the population is Muslim. |
Kashmir
|
|
..., Nehru’s daughter,
|
Indira Gandhi
|
|
indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by .
|
her Sikh bodyguards
|
|
India: 1961--used military force to seize ..., which had been
Portuguese for almost 5 centuries. |
Goa
|
|
India 1962 fought with China along India’s northeast border.
who won |
China
|
|
India’s first .. test was in 1974.
|
nuclear
|