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79 Cards in this Set
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Canton System of Trade
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China only let westerners trade in Canton and nowhere else.
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East India Trading Company
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Acted as moderators to accomodate the Chinese.
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Co Hong
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13 Merchant houses assigned to deal with the foreign traders.
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4 Restrictions on Western Traders in Canton
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1. Cannot directly contact government officials
2. Cannot bring women to Canton 3. Could not enter the city itself 4. Once trading season was over they had to leave |
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Chinese-English Trade
Tea VS Opium |
At first England paid silver for chinese tea. Then opium was discovered and china began paying silver for opium.
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Opium
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Eventually banned from china, smuggling ensued.
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1839 Commissioner Lin
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Sent to Canton ot enforce anti-opium laws
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British Response to Commissioner Lin and ban of Opium
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Sent Military
Began Opium War |
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Opium War (AngloChinese war)
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China which had fallen behind on military technology fell to the western powers and forced to sign unequal treaties
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Treaty of Nanjing
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Provisions:
1. Open five treaty ports: Shanghai and Canton etc 2. Hong Kong became part of England 3. Western powers get extra-territorial rights 4. China must pay for destroyed the products 5. Westerns control the tariffs. |
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Other treaties (China after nanjing)
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Loss of territories, loss of rights, China was open and being bled.
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Choson (Yi) Dynasty
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Korean Dynasty during the Ming
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General Yi Songgyo
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General who was sent to fight off the Ming but decided it was a bad idea and turned the army around and overthrew the reigning dynasty.
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Choson-Ming relations
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Tributary relationship
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Yalu and Tumen
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Rivers which were officially labeled as the boundaries between Korea and China
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Korean Confucian State
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Adopted Chinese Six Ministries
Chinese criminal code: coverted into the Korean Legal Code Civil service exam taken but limited to upper class. |
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1485 Korea
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Chinese criminal code converted to Korean Legal Code
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Korean Class System
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1. Yangban
2. Chungin 3. Yangmin |
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Yangban
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Hereditary ruling class; estates owners
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Chungin
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Middle class, semi-educated, subordinates, and specialists
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Yangmin
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Commoners "base people"
Butchers, prostitues, actors |
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Impact of Neo-confucianism (korea)
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Decline in the status of women
Excluded from family inheritance Could not initiate divorce |
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Economy (korea)
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Still backwards and based on agricuture, farmers still near serfs
Massive poverty |
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Land (korea)
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Monopolized by large land owners
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Commerce (korea)
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monopolized by large merchant families
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Decline of Buddhism (Korea)
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New dynasty tried ot control the expansion by combining different schools into just two schools
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Upsurge of Confucian Scholarship
(Korea) |
More books published on confucianism due to the moveable type, encyclopedias
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Korean Writing Systme
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Han'gul
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Painting (korea)
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borrowed song dynasty
High class: landscapes and nature Lower Class: houses and figures |
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Japanese Invasion
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1592-1598 Ming intervention,
Successful at first, destryoed relics and libraries |
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Opening of Korea
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Done by Japan Mid 19th century
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Sohak
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Western Learning
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Christianity (korea)
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Leaders cracked down on missionary movements
Missionaries snuck in |
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1894-1895
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Sino-Japanese War
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1876
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Japanese Intrusion and Kanghwa treaty
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Kanghwa Treaty
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1. Japan declares Korea independent
2. Korean king must open treaty ports to japan |
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Other things caused by Kanghwa Treaty
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breakdown of coastal fortifications
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China- Sino-japanese war
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Tried to intervine but they no longer had that kind of power because of the opium war
Defeated by japan and forced to recognize japan's dominance over korea |
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Pro-Japanese faction in Korea
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Says that korea must turn their backs on china and modernize with Japan
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1910
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Japan annexs korea and taiwan,
both obtained from the sino-japanese war |
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Han (japan)
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Domains
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Southern Japan in reference to western technology
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All competeing for trade. Want weapons to help fight each other with the constant civil war going on.
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Two main western powers in Japan
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Portuguese and Dutch
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Influx of Western Technology
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Veeeeerrry little resistance
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1549
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Francis Xavier
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Christiantiy and Daimyos
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Attraction, and they did learn about it. Nothing major. Use it as a counter-weight to balance the very powerful Buddhist sects
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Samurai and Christianity
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Did not accept it but was impressed with the structure and Dicipline
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Dutch
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Dominated connection with japanese, more interested in trade then spreading religion
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Eventual Persecution of Christians
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Samurai prevented from becoming christians
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Shimbara Rebellion 1637-1638
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Was not a religious uprising but because the group was 99% christian the daimyo blamed it on that.
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"Closing" of Japan
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Beginning of the 17th century
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Policy of Seclusion 1639
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Closing off of everyone except the Dutch and the Dutch must follow terms
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Terms for Dutch to stay in Nagasaki
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1. Must stay in Nagasaki and must be supervised by Samurai Bureaucrats.
2. Must pay tribute to Edo 3. At regular intervals, prove disintrest in Christianity 4. Do not bring Christians on the ships 5. Keep japanese government informed on current events in europe and new technologies |
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Rise of Tokugawa Shogunate
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1. Change in Samurai: Ready-made officials warrior/scholar/bureaucrat
2. Increase in domestic trade 3. Continual consolidation of Control |
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Oda Nobunaga Southern Daimyo 1534-1584
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Seized Kyoto 1568
Went north towards old Kamakura area Murdered by one of his generals |
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1536-1598
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Murdered the murderer and continued Oda's work and conquered most Daimyo land
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Tokugawa Leyasu 1542-1616
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Edo; 1600 defeated all the Daimyos and imposed his leadership
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Han (daiymo domain)System
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1. Land given to clan members (closest to edo)
2. Land given to generals 3. Land to owners who pledge allegiance to the tokugawa |
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Sankin-kotai system
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Hostage system: must travel to edo every other year and leave behind a family member as a hostage to make sure you didn't go against the emperor
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National passport
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needed to travel to edo
Traveling added to a sense of national identity |
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Four Class Theory
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1.Samurai/Official/Scholar
2. Famers 3. Artisans 4. Merchants |
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Yamamoto
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wrote a scathing inditment against the new samurai. Hagakura written in the 18th century. He condemned the samurai for becoming soft. "It's our mission to die!" Maintain Bushido
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Merchants (japan)
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On the same level as the samurai . Custodians of the nation's wealht. Never looked down upon or discrimated against.
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Genroku
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Urban Excitement and entertainment quotas
Center in Osaka, then Edo |
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Decline in status of women
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Geisha, not prostittues
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Haiku
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The pond is frozen
The duck has nowhere to go He is very sad. |
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Kabuki
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At first full of violence and sex, live preformances on stage. Eventually banned.
Brought back but no females allowed to preform |
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Rangaku
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Dutch learning, learning of the west
Liberal group of scholar |
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Kokugaku
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National learning and shinto
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Motoori Norinaga
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Wrote books on the mission of japan to civilize the world and that the sun goddess was a universal ideology that should be embraced
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Requests from Perry ____ & 1854
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1. Protection of American Seamen in Japan
2. Provisions, opening up a few ports 3. A coaling station for ships 4.Trading relations with Japan |
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Letter from Perry
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Adressed to the emperor. Tokugawa showed it around asking for opinion. Only came as a weakness in the tokugawa
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1854 Treaty of Hanagawa
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Agreed to open two ports
Shimoda and Hakodate Original requests must be met American Council in Edo |
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1858 Treaty of Edo
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Extra Territoriality
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Terms to Embarass the Tokugawa
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Disgrace to the emperor
Return power to the emperor Must modernize to make Japan one of the Imperial Powers |
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1867 Change in Emperor
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Old emperor died and 17 year old takes over as the Meiji Emperor
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Meiji Restoration
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Young emperor and anti-tokugawa groups fought against the tokugawa and won.
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Effects of the Meiji Restoration
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1. Marked the end of fuedalism
2. Restoration of the emperor to a seat of some sort of power and importance 3. Emperor fully supportive of moderization |
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Modernization of japan
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Eventually able to shake off treaties, moderize and become hella merchants.
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