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Asian Transitions in a Global Age
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What was Batavia?
This was the new Dutch port and capital of the
Dutch spice trade on the island of Java.
What was Luzon?
This was the northern island of the Philippines
conquered by the Spanish.
What was Ceylon ( present day Sri Lanka) ?
This was the island that was conquered by the
Dutch that controlled the cinnamon trade and
was nicknamed the” Tear Drop of India.”
What were factories ?
These were the warehouses where spices and
other products could be stored until they were
ready for shipment back to Europe.
What was Mindanao?
This was the Islamic island in the southern
Philippines that the Spanish failed to
conquer.
What were the caravels?
These were the innovative ships designed by
the Portuguese to carry cargo and cannon to
make the long voyages of exploration and trade.
Who was Zheng He?
He was the Chinese admiral who commanded a
series of sailing expeditions to Persia, India, and
the Red Sea.
Who was Vasco De Gama?
He was the first Portuguese sailor to
reach India and return with goods
that made enormous profits for the
captain and his crew. ( those that
survived)
What was mercantilism?
This was the economic policy that
wanted to amass bullion, limit imports
of foreign goods, and limited colonists
to only trading with the mother country.
“Don’t Choke!”
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What was Deshima, Nagasaki Japan?
This was the island port in Nagasaki Bay and
the only port in Japan open to the Dutch and
Europeans.
Who was Chongzhen?
He was the last of the Ming rulers who
committed suicide in 1644 as rebels invaded
the Forbidden City.
Who were Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall ?
These were the two Jesuit priests, missionaries,
and scientists who served at the Ming court but
won very few converts to Christianity.
What were Canton and Macao?
These were the only Ming ports open
Europeans and where Europeans were
restricted to trade.
What was the Treaty of Gijanti in 1757?
This was the Treaty that reduced the Javanese
princes to essentially vassals of the Dutch East
India Company.
Who was Francis Xaviar ?
He was the Franciscan missionary who worked
in India among the lower castes and later Japan
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in the 16 century.
Who was Hongwu?
He was the fist Ming Emperor who drove out
the Mongols and restored the scholar –gentry
to a position of prominence in China.
What was Malacca?
This was the city at the tip of the Malaysian
peninsula and a center of trade in Southeast
Asia that became a major Portuguese trading
base.
What was Goa?
This was the important Indian port developed by the
Portuguese which became an important Indian
Ocean base and had an International population.
Who was Robert Di Nobli?
He was the Italian Jesuit who became an active
Missionary in India and tried to convert the
elite princes of India to Christianity with little
success.
Who was Nobunaga?
He was the first Japanese Daimyo to make
extensive use of firearms in 1573 and deposed
the last Ashikaga shogun.
“Don’t Choke!”
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What was Edo or now Tokyo?
This was the Tokugawa capital and now the
capital of Japan and the center of the Tokugawa
Shogunate.
Who were the Manchus?
These were the Zhurchen people from a region
in north east China who seized power and
created the Qing Dynasty.
What was the School of National Learning?
This was the 18th century ideology that emphasized
Japan’s unique historical experience and a revival of
indigenous Japanese culture at the expense of
Confucianism and Chinese influence.
What was Christianity?
This was the faith or religion that was
officially banned in Japan in 1614.
What were the Water Margin, Monkey, and
The Golden Lotus?
These were novels written during the Ming
Dynasty and the availability of books by the
creation of block printing.
What was the Port of Ormuz ( Hormuz) ?
This was the Portuguese trading center
established at the tip of the Persian Gulf and
became an important port in the Indian Ocean
Trade Network.
What was the Asian Sea Trading Network?
This was the name for the various exchange
of goods between India, China, and the Arab
world which centered around the Indian
Ocean.
Who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
He was a general under Oda Nobunaga who led
military power in Central Japan and broke the
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power of the Daimyos in the late 16 century.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?
He was a vassal lord of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
who succeeded him as the military leader of
Japan and established the Tokugawa
Shogunate in 1603.
What was the Dutch Trading Empire?
This was the name for the vast merchant network
created by the Netherlands around the world with
fortified towns, factories for storing goods, patrol
ships and a monopoly on certain products such as
pepper and cinnamon.