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59. Which of the following factors did NOT lead to political unification in Japan between 1500-1800?
a. Relatively small size.
b. A culturally homogenous population.
c. Natural boundaries.
d. Emphasis on feudalism
e. None of these
REF: p. 556
60. In 1592, after years of civil war, Hideyoshi
a. launched an invasion of Korea and China.
b. was killed by his palace guard.
c. successfully pacified the country by outlawing all weapons.
d. converted to Buddhism.
e. renounced violence in all forms.
REF: p. 556
61. One of the consequences of Japanese aggression in the sixteenth century was
a. the creation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
b. the defeat of weakened Chinese armies by the Manchu.
c. the complete defeat of Japanese forces.
d. the alliance formed between China, the Manchus, and Japan.
e. the destruction of the Manchu Empire.
REF: p. 556
62. After the period of civil wars ended in Japan,
a. Japanese leaders fragmented into many feuding castes.
b. Korea invaded Japan.
c. Japanese leaders resigned, thus allowing a true democracy to form.
d. Japanese leaders established the Tokugawa Shogunate, a centralized military government.
e. China invaded Japan.
REF: p. 556
63. The main form of economic exchange in the Tokugawa Shogunate was
a. cash.
b. land.
c. political power.
d. rice.
e. stock options.
REF: p. 556
64. Which Japanese city emerged as one of the world's most populous centers of trade by the late 17 th
century?
a. Osaka
b. Honshu
c. Edo
d. Nagasaki
e. Kyoto
REF: p. 556
65. The group within the Tokugawa era that weakened centralized economic policies was the
a. daimyo
b. shoguns
c. merchants
d. samurai
e. scholars
REF: p. 557
66. The term "Dutch studies" referred to
a. a period in Japanese history that corresponded to the "tulip period" of the Safavid empire.
b. a partnership between Japanese merchants and the VOC for trading of porcelain.
c. Japanese who learned about European weapons, shipbuilding and sciences.
d. the requirement by the Emperor that Christian missionaries must learn Japanese as the
Dutch had done.
e. a learning curve as the Dutch traders attacked the technologically inferior Japanese, who
adapted their technology to overthrow the merchants later.
REF: p. 560
67. The Japanese response to the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits was
a. to officially welcome it with open arms.
b. to murder every Jesuit that entered the country.
c. to adopt Catholic beliefs.
d. to blend Shinto, Buddhist, and Catholic belief systems.
e. mixed; while some were opposed to it, others were attracted.
REF: p. 559
REF: p. 563
78. What European organization was a transmitter of science and technology to China?
a. The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits
b. The Teutonic Knights
c. The Knights Templar
d. The Order of the Cross
e. The Royal Scientific Society
REF: p. 563
79. Who was Matteo Ricci?
a. The man responsible for domesticating rice
b. The first European to speak Chinese and Japanese
c. The Chinese emperor's prime minister to Europe
d. A Jesuit missionary who introduced European technology to China
e. The "Marco Polo of the eighteenth century"
REF: p. 563
80. Why did the Jesuits succeed more than other Christianizing organizations in China?
a. Jesuits focused on the intellectual and political elite
b. Jesuits focused on the merchants
c. Jesuits focused on conversion of the bottom of society.
d. Jesuits used syncretism to promote Buddhism as a parallel of Christianity.
e. Jesuits were banned from China.
REF: p. 563
81. Who helped negotiate an act of settlement between Russia and China?
a. Ivan IV and Kangxi
b. Jesuit interpreters
c. Siberian shamas
d. Confucian scholars
e. Marco Polo's grandson
REF: p. 566
82. The Treaty of Nerchinsk
a. allied the Chinese and Russians against the Germans.
b. allowed Europeans into formerly closed China.
c. gave China a communist political system.
d. fixed the northern border of China along the Amur River.
e. was violated the day after it was signed and led to a war.
REF: p. 566
83. To gain converts, the Jesuits made what compromise?
a. They tolerated Confucian ancestor worship.
b. They allowed Chinese women to become priests.
c. They acknowledged the emperor to be a god on earth.
d. They broke away from the Catholic Church.
e. They freely mixed Buddhism and Confucianism into Orthodox Catholicism.
REF: p. 566
84. During the Qing Empire, what new item(s) or idea(s) did Europe not gain from China?
a. Use of gunpowder
b. The practice of decorating homes with wallpaper
c. Silk, porcelain, and tea
d. The poetry written by the Qing emperors
e.