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Chapter 22: Asian Transitions in
an Age of Global Change
By Robert Appel, Nathan Barnavon,
Alex Cott
Objectives
1. European impacts on Asian Civilization during
early modern Western expansion
2. Asian Sea Trading Network
3. Christianity’s impact on A.S.T.N
4. Portuguese effect on South Asia + A.S.T.N
5. Dutch Trading Empire
6. Japanese Isolation
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Look for these Vocabulary Words!
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Caravels
Asian Sea Trading Network
Mercantilists
Factories
Dutch Trading Empire
Calicut
School of National Learning
Tokugawa Family
Ming
Asian Sea Trading Network
• Portuguese to Asia
• Portuguese refused to
pay taxes
• Take over port cities
• Monopolize Asian
trading + enforce
taxes
• Factories secure
control
Dutch Trading Empire
• Portuguese can’t hold
A.S.T.N
• English + Dutch come
• English overpowered
by Dutch, become
Dutch Trading Empire
• Dutch decided to
focus on spice
network
Dutch Trading Empire
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Christianity in Asia
• Christianity appealing
to Untouchables
• Difficult to convert
higher caste Hindu
• Eventually gave up on
converting India
• Great success in
Philippines
Ming China
• Mongols overthrown,
Scholar-Gentry strengthens
• Christian missionaries
infiltrated Chinese coastal
areas
• Jesuits go after higher class
• Jesuits used science to
maintain a presence
Japan
• Jesuits came to shores
of Japan
• Tokugawa family runs
Japan for many years
• Jesuits try to convert
upper-class
• Japan feared
merchants would ruin
social order
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Japan Cont.
• Limited trade
• Focused on school of
National Learning
• Japanese elite
followed
developments in the
West through contact
with Deshima
Summary Picture
AP Questions
1. What did the Portuguese find when they arrived
in India?
a. They found that they had little to offer in trade, but
could get rich quickly by forcing themselves into the
existing trade network
b. They quickly integrated themselves on peaceful
terms into the Asian trade system
c. They exchanged valuable European goods for Asian
luxury items
d. They established relations with Muslim merchants
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AP Questions
2. Which of the following characterized the
Asian trading system as the first Europeans
encountered it?
a. The Indian Ocean trade was monopolized by
Hindu merchants
b. The Indian Ocean trade was dominated by
Muslim merchants
c. The trade in slaves was the principal cargo
traversing the Indian Ocean
d. The Indian Ocean trade was highly militarized
AP Questions
3. What circumstances prevented the
Portuguese from establishing a monopoly over
the Asian spice trade?
a. The Mughal and Ottoman navies were too strong
b. French traders offered too much competition
c. Portugal was a small nation and lacked the ships
and manpower needed to overcome its Asian
and European competition
d. Access to the most profitable spices was
controlled by the Chinese
AP Questions
4. What Asian society witnessed the largest
percentage of its population converted to
Christianity?
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b.
c.
d.
China
India
The Philippines
Japan
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AP Questions
5. Which raw material had the broadest demand
and highest price?
a. Silk from China to the Middle East
b. Cottons from India to the Middle East
c. Bulk items, usually foodstuffs, exchanged among
each of the main zones
d. Spices from the East Indies
AP Questions
6. What happened after the defeat and
expulsion of the Mongols from China?
a. Chinese manufacturing expanded further
b. Peasants were granted equality with the scholargentry and noble classes
c. China converted to Buddhism
d. The civil service exam system of the Mongols
was ended
AP Questions
7. How did the Japanese deal with the startling
arrival of the Europeans to East Asia during the
17th century?
a. allying with the Portuguese against the other
Europeans
b. Permitting the Jesuits to convert the Japanese to
Christianity
c. Permitting the Europeans to establish control over
Japan’s foreign trade
d. Self-imposed isolation and forbidding most contact
with Europeans
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