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| 3790864581 | caravels | Slender, long-hulled vessels utilized by Portuguese; highly maneuverable and able to sail against the wind; key to development of Portuguese trade empire in Asia | 0 | |
| 3790864893 | Asian sea trading network | Prior to intervention of Europeans, consisted of 3 zones: Arab zone based on glass, carpets, and tapestries; India based on cotton textiles; China based on paper, porcelain, and silks | 1 | |
| 3791213297 | mercantilists | Economic theorists that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe | 2 | |
| 3791224281 | Ormuz | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located at the southern end of the Persian Gulf; site for forcible entry into Asiansea trade network | 3 | |
| 3791231703 | Goa | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located onwestern India coast; site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network | 4 | |
| 3791241129 | factories | European trading fortesses and compounds with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places and commerce | 5 | |
| 3791248795 | Batavia | Dutch fortress located after 1620 on the island of Java | 6 | |
| 3791253388 | Dutch trading empire | The Dutch system extending into Asia with fortified towns and factories, warships on patrol, and monopoly control of a limited number of products | 7 | |
| 3791261391 | Luzon | Northern island of Philippines; conquered by Spain during the 1560s; site of major Catholic missinoary effort | 8 | |
| 3791266146 | Mindanao | Southern island of Philippines; a Muslim kingdom that was able to successfully resist Spanish conquest | 9 | |
| 3791273043 | Francis Xavier | Spanish Jesuit missionary who worked in India in 1540s among the outcaste and lower caste groups; made little headway among elites | 10 | |
| 3791285742 | Robert di Nobili | Italian Jesuit missionary who worked in India during the early 1600s; introduced strategy to convert elites first; strategy later widely adopted by Jesuits in various parts of Asia; mission eventually failed | 11 | |
| 3791297992 | Hongwu | First Ming emperor in 1368 who originally was of peasant lineage; orinally named Zhu Yuanzhang; drove out Mongol influence; restored positionof scholar-gentry | 12 | |
| 3791309926 | Macao | One of 2 ports in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty | 13 | |
| 3791316393 | Canton | One of 2 ports in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty | 14 | |
| 3791324521 | Matteo Ricci | Along with Adam Schall, Jesuit scholar in the court of the Ming emperors; skilled scientist; won few converts to Christianity | 15 | |
| 3791333441 | Adam Schall | Along with Matteo Ricci, Jesuit scholar in the court of the Ming emperors; skilled scientist; won few converts to Christianity | 16 | |
| 3791342673 | Chongzhen | Last of the Ming emperors; committed suicide in 1644 in the face of a Jurchen capture of the Forbidden City at Beijing | 17 | |
| 3791351094 | Oda Nobunaga | Japanese daimyo; first to make extensive use of firearms; in 1573 deposed last of Ashikaga shoguns; unified much of central Honshuunder his command | 18 | |
| 3791361083 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | General under Nobunaga; succeeded as leading military power in central Japan; continued efforts to break power of daimyos; constructed a series of alliances that made him military master of Japan in 1590; died in 1598 | 19 | |
| 3791374687 | Edo | Tokugawa capitalcity; modern-day Tokyo; central of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 20 | |
| 3791377195 | Tokugawa Ieyaso | Vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa Shogunate; established political unity in Japan | 21 | |
| 3791397850 | Deshima | Island in Nagasaki Bay; only port open to non-Japanese after closure of the islands in the 1640s; only Chinese and Dutch ships were permitted to enter | 22 | |
| 3791404876 | School of National Learning | 23 |
