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| 49062159 | Asian sea trading network | Divided, from West to East, into three zones prior to the European arrival: an Arab zone based on glass, carpets, and tapestries; an Indian zone, with cotton textiles; and a Chinese zone, with paper, porcelain, and silks | 0 | |
| 49062160 | Goa | Indian city developed by the Portuguese as a major Indian Ocean base; developed an important Indo-European population | 1 | |
| 49062161 | Ormuz | Portuguese establishment at the southern end of the Persian Gulf; a major trading base. | 2 | |
| 49062162 | Malacca | City on the tip of the Malayan peninsula; a center for trade to the southeastern Asian islands; became a major Portuguese trading base | 3 | |
| 49062163 | Batavia | Dutch establishment on Java; created in 1620 | 4 | |
| 49062164 | Treaty of Gijanti (1757): | Reduced the remaining independent Javanese princes to vassals of the Dutch East India Company; allowed the Dutch to monopolize Java's coffee production. | 5 | |
| 49062165 | Luzon | Northern island of the Philippines; conquered by Spain during the 1560s; site of a major Catholic missionary effort. | 6 | |
| 49062166 | Mindanao: | Southern island of the Philippines; a Muslim area able to successfully resist Spanish conquest. | 7 | |
| 49062167 | Francis Xavier | Franciscan missionary who worked in India during the 1540s among outcast and lower-caste groups; later worked in Japan | 8 | |
| 49062168 | Robert Di Nobli | Italian Jesuit active in India during the early 1600s; failed in a policy of first converting indigenous elites | 9 | |
| 49062169 | Hongwu | First Ming emperor (1368-1403); drove out the Mongols and restored the position of the scholar-gentry | 10 | |
| 49062170 | Macao and Canton | The only two ports in Ming China where Europeans were allowed to trade. | 11 | |
| 49062171 | The Water Margin, Monkey, and The Golden Lotus | Novels written during the Ming period; recognized as classics and established standards for Chinese prose literature. | 12 | |
| 49062172 | Zhenghe | Chinese admiral who led seven overseas trade expeditions under Ming emperor Yunglo between 1405 and 1423; demonstrated that the Chinese were capable of major ocean exploration | 13 | |
| 49062173 | Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall | Jesuit scholars at the Ming court; also skilled scientists; won few converts to Christianity. | 14 | |
| 49062174 | Manchu | Zhurchen people from region to the northeast of the Chinese empire; seized power and created the Qing dynasty after the collapse of the Ming | 15 | |
| 49062175 | Nobunaga | The first Japanese daimyo to make extensive use of firearms; in 1573 deposed the last Ashikaga shogun; unified much of central Honshu; died in 1582 | 16 | |
| 49062176 | Toyotomo Hideyoshi | General under Nobunaga; succeeded as a leading militarypower in central Japan; continued efforts to break power of the daimyos; became military master of Japan in 1590; died 1598 | 17 | |
| 49062177 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Vassal of Toyotomo Hideyoshi; succeeded him as the most powerful military figure in Japan; granted title of shogun in 1603 and established the Tokugawa shogunate; established political unity in Japan | 18 | |
| 49062178 | Edo | Tokugawa capital, modern-day Tokyo; center of Tokugawa shogunate | 19 | |
| 49062179 | Deshima | Island port in Nagasaki Bay; the only port open to foreigners, the Dutch, after the 1640s. | 20 | |
| 49062180 | School of National Learning | 18th-century ideology that emphasized Japan's unique historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of Confucianism and other Chinese influences | 21 | |
| 49062181 | 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 | 22 | |
| 49062182 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe | 23 | |
| 49062183 | 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. | 24 | |
| 49062184 | Friars | Members of Roman Catholic religious orders | 25 |
