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41 Cards in this Set
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Marco Polo
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Italian trader
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"Middle Men"
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Italian and muslim merchants brought goods from the east
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Bartolomew Dias
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early portugese explorer
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“God, glory, and gold”
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Primary motives for exploration.
God religion; glory, fame and fortune; gold, wealth |
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Caravel
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Designed in 1400s sturdier and triangular sails adopted from arabs
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Astrolabe
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Brass circle with carefully adjusted rings marked off with degrees
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Prince Henry
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- Called “the Navigator” used own fortune to organize more than 14 voyages along western coast of Africa. He died in debt and portugese spent more than 60 years paying it off.
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Ceuta
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Portugese found exotic stores filled with pepper, cinnamon, cloves and other spices.
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Vasco da Gama
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Explored east African coast.
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Line of Demarcation
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- The imaginary line created by pope Alexander VI. Line drawn north to south through the atlantic. Portugal complained so it was moved farther west.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Spain and Portugal agreed to sign and honor the line
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Ferdinand Magellan
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- Led Spanish expedition arrived in Philippines claimed lands and began settling
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Dutch East India Company
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- Richer and more powerful than English company. As result drove out English and established dominance over region.
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Ming Dynasty
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- 1368-1644 dominant power in asia
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Hongwu
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- Peasants son commanded rebel army that drove out the Mongols in 1368. Becme first mind dynasty emporer
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Purges
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purges of government killing thousands of officials
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Yonglo
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- Son of hongwu won power struggle after fathers death.
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The Forbidden City
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- Where the royal court was moved to Beijing. Commoners and foreigners were not allowed to enter.
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Zheng Hi-
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led all 7 voyages yonglo commanded
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Matteo Ricci
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jesuit of china
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Manchus/Qing Dynasty
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- People of that region invaded china and ming dynasty collapsed. Qing dynasty took over.
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Kangxi
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- Became emperor in 1661 and ruled 60 years
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Qian-long
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- Grandson ruled and reached chinas greatest size and prosperity
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Middle Kingdom
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what chinas called
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“kowtow”
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- Ritual involved kneeling in front of emperor and touching ones head to the ground nine times.
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Lord George Macartney-
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- Delivered letter from king George III to Qian long. Asking for better ttrade arrangement.
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Policy of isolation
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- Chinas way of keeping foreign ideas out
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Midwife
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- Some women found work as midwives. birthed babies
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Shogun
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- Military leaders.
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Sengoku/”Warring States”
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- Violent era of disorder
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Samurai
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- Seized control of old feudal states
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daimyo
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- Warrior chieftains , great name
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Odu Nobunaga
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- Daimyo defeated rivals and imperial Kyoto
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Seppuku
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- Ritual suicide of a samurai
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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- Nounagas best general continued fallen leaders misson
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
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- One of hideyoshi’s strongest daimyo allies completed unification of japan
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Haiku
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- 5-7-5 syllable 3 line poetry
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Kabuki
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- Theatre. skits about modern life.
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Edo
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- tokyo
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Francis Xavier
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- Jesuit led the first mission to japan
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“closed country policy”
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- Sealed japans borders exclude missionaries and merchants
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