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2. 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
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7. Which Japanese city emerged as one of the world's most populous centers of trade by the late 17th century?
a. Osaka
b. Honshu
c. Edo
d. Nagasaki
e. Kyoto
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8. The group within the Tokugawa era that weakened centralized economic policies was the
a. daimyo
b. shoguns
c. merchants
d. samurai
e. scholars
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____ 10. 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.
____ 11. In the 1630s the Japanese government
a. adopted an "open door" policy in regards to foreign trade.
b. largely closed Japan to European trade and Christian influence.
c. encouraged the people to choose an economic system.
d. encouraged the people to choose a religious system.
e. opened up trade to England only.
____ 12. Which of the following did not contribute to Tokugawa Japan's instability?
a. The samurai went into debt.
b. The merchants gained in power.
c. The government remained traditional in a society that was changing.
d. The introduction of Christianity caused Buddhism to die out.
e. Population and economic growth put a strain on resources.
____ 13. A ronin was
a. a moneylender.
b. an elite minister of the shogun.
c. a merchant.
d. a masterless follower who had lost his samurai.
e. a Buddhist monk.
____ 14. European visitors to Ming China in the sixteenth century were
a. dissatisfied with the quality of Chinese goods.
b. trying to convince the Chinese to accept the Russian presence in Manchuria.
c. buying huge quantities of opium, which was unavailable in Europe at the time.
d. astonished at its power, manufacturing, and vast population.
e. unimpressed by China's grandeur.
____ 15. What was the main reason for population decline in the rural areas of Ming China?
a. Moving to the cities to participate in manufacturing
b. Bubonic plague
c. Lack of agricultural innovation and crop fungus
d. European invasion
e. Economic depression
____ 24. 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
____ 25. 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.
____ 26. 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.
____ 27. 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. An early form of inoculation
____ 28. Under the Qing, Europeans were permitted to trade only at
a. Beijing.
b. Canton.
c. Shanghai.
d. Kashgar.
e. Hunan.
____ 29. Among the cross-cultural intellectual exchanges between China and Europe, variolation was
a. when diplomats spontaneously combusted.
b. immunization by vaccine.
c. a bilingual printing of trade contracts.
d. drawing maps that showed the Eastern as well as the Western world.
e. a means by which Chinese physicians compared European anatomy to that of Asians.
____ 30. What problem did the British face with China's "Canton system"?
a. Britain couldn't meet China's demand for goods.
b. China bought few British goods.
c. China wanted British rule in Canton to facilitate trade.
d. the British wanted to go to Canton only for trade.
e. a gold deposit was required as goodwill collateral.
____ 31. The British Macartney mission was an attempt to
a. persuade China to revise its trade system.
b. find a lost British missionary, Eli Macartney.
c. assassinate the emperor's main rival.
d. convert the Chinese to Christianity.
e. establish diplomatic ties with Japan.
____ 48. Which of the following statements about China and Russia is not true?
a. Both were large land empires.
b. Both suffered large population declines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
c. Both had armies that depended on large numbers of soldiers to defeat enemies.
d. Both used forced labor such as serfs and peasants.
e. Both tolerated diversity while trying to promote assimilation.
____ 49. Catherine the Great used three successive partitions of which area to expand Russia's borders to the West?
a. Sweden
b. Prussia
c. Lithuania
d. Poland
e. Romania