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Chapter 21 Self-Assessment
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Which of the following is the correct chronological order?
Founding of the Ming Dynasty; founding of the Qing Dynasty; establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate; Shimabara Rebellion.
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Founding of the Qing Dynasty; establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate; founding of the Ming Dynasty; the Shimabara Rebellion.
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The Shimabara Rebellion, the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate; the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
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Founding of the Ming Dynasty; founding the Tokugawa Shogunate; Shimabara Rebellion; founding of the Qing Dynasty.
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Which of the following is the proper chronological order?
Zheng He's nautical exploration, reign of the Kangxi emperor; Matteo Ricci reaches China; reign of the Qianlong emperor.
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Reign of the Kangxi emperor; Zheng He's nautical explorations; reign of the Qianlong emperor; Matteo Ricci reaches China.
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Zheng He's nautical explorations, Matteo Ricci reaches China, reign of the Kangxi Emperor; reign of the Qianlong emperor.
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Matteo Ricci reaches China; rein of the Kangxi Emperor; Zheng He's nautical explorations, reign of the Qianlong emperor.
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The Tokugawa attempt to conquer China in the late sixteenth century was led by:
Oda Nobunaga
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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Hongwu
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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During the period between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, China's population was reduced from about 100 million to about 60 million by:
The Mongol invasion
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Banditry, fighting, and lingering effects of the Black Death
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Constant wars with the Japanese
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Raids by Western European navies
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The addition of important new food crops was an important factor in Chinese population growth, resulting in populations of:
About 60 million in 1368 to 150 million in 1600, and about 300 million by 1800.
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About 60 million in 1368 to 100 million in 1500, to about 200 million by 1800.
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About 60 million in 1368 to 200 million in 1500, to about 250 million by 1800.
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About 60 million in 1368 to 75 million in 1500, to about 400 million by 1800.
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Two leaders who led the Manchus to military might by the seventeenth century were:
Nurhachi and Abahai
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Kongxi and Abahai
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Nurhachi and Liadong
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Abahai and Wu Sangui
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All of the following was true of the banner system EXCEPT:
The Chinese, as a conquered people, were not allowed to participate.
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Developed for military and tax purposes.
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Originally organized for mobile warriors.
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The chief administrative tool of the Manchu leadership.
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There were ___ banner organizations:
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The Manchus who ruled China constituted about __% of the population:
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15
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The "queue edict" mandated that:
Manchu females were forbidden to bind their feet.
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Chinese men could continue wearing their hair in traditional styles, but could not be a part of the military banners if they did.
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Chinese men had to adopt the Manchu style of shaving their entire heads.
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Chinese men had to adopt the Manchu style of a shaved forehead with a long braid in back.
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For much of the 17th century ________ remained the primary task of the Manchu rulers.
pacification of the empire
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conquest of the empire
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conquest of Japan
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creating a new, religious order
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The Manchu conceived of their state as the embodiment of :
all the peoples within it
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Han Chinese dominance
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Manchu dominance
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a return to Mongol-style conquest
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The high point of the Qing dynasty was during the rule of
The Qianlong emperor
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The Kangxi emperor
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Matteo Ricci
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Nurhachi
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The earliest Christian missionaries encountered by the Ming dynasty were:
The Jesuits and the Franciscans
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The Jesuits and the Dominicans
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The Franciscans and Dominicans
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The Cistercians and the Franciscans
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All of the following are true about the "Rites Controversy" EXCEPT:
High officials in the Church considered the Jesuit liturgical and doctrinal adaptations to be a problem.
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High officials in the Church disapproved of the Jesuits' use of tea and rice instead of wine and bread in the Chinese Christian Eucharist.
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High officials in the Church disapproved of the Jesuits allowing Chinese Christians to continue their veneration of Confucius and maintenance of ancestral shrines.
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High officials in the Church disapproved of the decrees of Kangxi and his successor Yongzheng that Chinese Christians must follow the Jesuit orthodoxy.
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In the Canton trade (the commercial trade between Europe and Asia), all of the following are true EXCEPT:
The Qing dynasty incorporated the European merchants into the diplomatic system during the seventeenth century.
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The British East India Company used its base at Calcutta to try to expand its operations in China.
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The Qing dynasty tried to permit European trade only in the port of Guangzhou (known as Canton by Europeans).
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The Qing were concerned that foreign traders were working with Ming loyalists against their rule.
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In the context of European trade with Asia, a "factory" is:
The place where Asian goods are manufactured for the European markets.
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The diplomatic quarters in Beijing, called "factory" because they were headed up by a "factor."
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The place where merchants, local agents, and other interested parties gathered to conduct business.
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The place European merchants brought their wives and other family members to stay during the trading seasons.
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All of the following are true of the "Single Whip" system EXCEPT:
All families were placed into officially designated villages for tax purposes.
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About 110 households comprised the villages.
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The baojia system required families to register all members.
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Each village was responsible directly to the Emperor or his Court designee, thus eliminating potentially dangerous rural aristocracies from developing.
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Most of our information about the lives of Chinese peasants comes from all of the following sources EXCEPT:
Diaries and family histories kept by peasant leaders.
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Literary sources compiled by the scholar-gentry.
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Chronicles produced by Westerners traveling in China.
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Local histories and gazetteers.
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The education of elite womenâ€Å
Focused on cooking, cleaning, and rearing children.
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Focused on training in sexual protocol.
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Included training in Confucian decorum, writing essays, and reciting poetry.
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Was intended to prepare them to assist their mothers-in-law in managing a household.
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In regard to military might and technology, the Ming have been characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A military superpower.
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Possessing technologically capable of producing thousands of cannon and handguns each year.
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Reliant on diplomacy and negotiations in the best Confucian tradition.
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On their way to developing a powerful navy.
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Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, three powerful emperors of the Qing (a foreign, Manchu dynasty), strove to validate their reigns by all of the following EXCEPT:
Supporting creative artists and poets even when they were unorthodox.
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Being patrons of the arts.
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Setting the tone in aesthetic matters.
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Initiating mammoth cultural projects.
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All of the following is true of the Donglin Academy EXCEPT:
It was founded by philosophers who concluded that the Ming collapsed in part because of its retreat from practical politics.
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It was devoted to reconstituting an activist Confucianism.
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The scholars of the Academy avoiding arguing with the Court about any matters, believing a stable, self-assured government was the strongest.
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It inspired the "Han Learning Movement," which sought to recover the original classic Confucianism.
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The "Three Excellences" were:
Poetry, painting, and calligraphy.
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Confucian essays, painting, and calligraphy.
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Garden landscaping, calligraphy, and poetry.
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Classical Chinese opera, classical dance, and poetry.
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The Japanese daimyo were:
A class of high-level bureaucrats.
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Another term for the samurai.
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Regional warlords.
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The codes of honor that governed the behavior of samurai.
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After growing disillusioned with Marxism, Italy's Benito Mussolini founded the "Italian Combat Squads," also known as the "Blackshirts," thus giving rise to the ideology of _________.
Surrealism
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Fascism
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Communism
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Socialism
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In 1924, "Il Duce," as Mussolini styled himself, began implementing his idea of a _________, in which all sectors of society contribute in a systematic, orderly and hierarchical fashion to the health of the state.
communist state
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police state
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client state
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corporate state
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