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8607991578The Asian sea trading network was centered on ________.The Indian Ocean0
8607991579Which of these was a Portuguese factory on the coast of India?Goa1
8607991580Portuguese factories were used primarily for ________.Storage2
8607991581The Dutch center on Java was ________.Batavia3
8607991582Which of these was a key product sought by Europeans on Ceylon?Cinnamon4
8607991583Luzon was a key island in what archipelago?Philippines5
8607991584Which of these was the base of a Philippine Muslim kingdom?Mindanao6
8607991585Which of these was a Jesuit missionary active in India?Francis Xavier7
8607991586Which of these Jesuit missionaries learned Sanskrit in an effort to gain converts?Robert di Nobili8
8607991587The Ming dynasty was founded by which emperor?Hongwu9
8607991588What three crops transformed the Chinese diet in the sixteenth century?Corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts10
8607991589Which of these was designated as one of the cities open to Europeans in Ming China?Macao11
8607991590The Zheng He expeditions ended in what decade?1430s12
8607991591Which of these missionary orders attempted to convert the Ming emperors?Jesuits13
8607991592Imperial support for Christian missionaries ended when the practice of ________ was attacked.Ancestor worshi14
8607991593The largest ships in Zheng He's fleet were the ________.Dragon ships15
8607991594Which of these was the last emperor of the Ming dynasty?Chongzhen16
8607991595Which of these "unifiers" deposed the last Ashikaga shogun?Oda Nobunaga17
8607991596Which of these Japanese rulers hoped to conquer China?Toyotomi Hideyoshi18
8607991597Which of these established a shogunate over Japan in 1603?Tokugawa leyasu19
8607991598The capital of Japan from around 1600 was ________.Edo20
8607991599Which of these was officially banned from Japan in 1614?Christianity21
8607991600European traders were confined to what Japanese island from the 1640s?Deshima22
8607991601Which of these retained trading privileges in Japan after most Europeans had been excluded?Dutch23
8607991602The School of National Learning was championed by ________ in Japan.Neo-Confucians24
8607991603The Asian sea trading network was characterized by ________.A series of ports reached by coastal routes25
8607991604The Asian sea trading network was linked by ________.Trade alone26
8607991605Looking at Map 23.1, "Routes and Major Products Exchanged in the Asian Trading Network," what was China's role in this trading system?Producer of manufactures27
8607991606The principle underlying the Asian sea trading network was that traders ________.All offered desirable goods28
8607991607A major Portuguese disadvantage in entering the Asian trading network was that the Portuguese ________.Found little demand for their goods29
8607991608The role of factories was to ________.Facilitate trade30
8607991609Which of these was highlighted by Dutch and Portuguese competition in Indonesia?The value of spice trade31
8607991610Which of these patterns can be seen in Map 23.2, "The Pattern of Early European Expansion in Asia"?The English had begun to dominate trade in India32
8607991611Which of these was true of Spain's role in the Indian Ocean?Spain was less dominant here than in the Americas33
8607991612In the 1600s and 1700s, the goal of European nations in Asian trade was basically to ________.Assert enough control to trade freely34
8607991613The biggest obstacle to Christian conversion efforts in south Asia was ________.The caste system35
8607991614The ability to gain converts to Christianity in the Philippines can largely be attributed to ________.The lack of monotheistic religions in the islands36
8607991615Ming culture was strongly marked by ________.Nationalist opposition to foreigners37
8607991616The Ming bureaucracy ________ Han and Tang traditions.Further developed38
8607991617The Ming emperors wished to revive the ________ but not ________ .Examination system; the power of the scholar-gentry39
8607991618Which of these provided the guiding principles for Ming social relations?Confucian ideals40
8607991619Which of these was the broader context for changes in the Chinese diet in the Ming era?The Colombian Exchange41
8607991620Which of these summarizes the Japanese political system around 1500?Fragmentation under daimyo rule42
8607991621What made up the three tiers of the Japanese political system around 1600?Daimyos, shoguns, emperor43
8607991622In Japan, the three unifiers can be characterized as ________.Daimyos that eliminated competition44
8607991623What Japanese group lost political power in the 1500s and 1600s?Daimyos45
8607991624Christian missionaries in Japan were the targets of persecution around 1600 because the missionaries ________.We're associated with growing foreign influence46
8607991625Compared to Atlantic trade in the same period, the Asian sea trading network was ________.More diffused47
8607991626Ming conservatism and hostility to foreign influences can probably be traced to ________.Yuan rule48
8607991627In the 1600s, Japan's attitude towards outsiders was a(n) ________ contemporary China's attitude.An extreme version of49

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