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| 9154880925 | 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 | |
| 9154900283 | Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer and first European to reach India by sea. | 1 | |
| 9155460984 | Asian sea trading network | Prior to intervention of Europeans, consisted of three zones: Arab zone based on glass, carpets and tapestries, India zone based on cotton textiles; China zone based on paper porcelain and silks. | 2 | |
| 9155469390 | mercantilists | Economic theorists that stressed governments' promotion of limitations of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. | 3 | |
| 9155587183 | Ormuz | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located at southern end of Persian gulf; site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network. | 4 | |
| 9155587184 | Goa | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on western India coast; site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network. | 5 | |
| 9155587185 | factories | European trading fortresses with resident merchants; utilized throughout Portuguese trading empire to assure secure landing places commerce. | 6 | |
| 9155696605 | Batavia | Dutch fortress located after 1620 on the island of Java. | 7 | |
| 9155696606 | Dutch trading empire | The Dutch system extended into Asia with fortified towns and factories, warships on patrol and monopoly control of a limited number of products. | 8 | |
| 9155722589 | Luzon | Northern island of Philippines; conquered by Spain during the 1560's; site of major Catholic missionary effort. | 9 | |
| 9155722590 | Mindanao | Southern island of the Philippines; a Muslim Kingdom that was able to successfully resist Spanish conquest. | 10 | |
| 9155771705 | Francis Xavier | Spanish Jesuit missionary; worked in India in the 1540s with lowcaste and outcaste groups; made little headway among elites. | 11 | |
| 9155799464 | Robert di Nobili | (1577-1656) Italian Jesuit missionary; 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. | 12 | |
| 9155808843 | Hongwu | First Ming Emperor in 1368; originally of peasant lineage; original name Zhu Yuanzhang; drove out Mongol influence; restored position of scholar gentry. | 13 | |
| 9155849130 | Macao | One of the 2 ports where Europeans were permitted to trade with China during the Ming Dynasty. | 14 | |
| 9155849131 | Canton | One of the 2 port cities where Europeans were permitted to trade with China during the Ming Dynasty. | 15 | |
| 9155877141 | Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall | Jesuit scholars in court of Ming emperors; skilled scientist; won few converts to Christianity. | 16 | |
| 9155894900 | Chongzhen | Last of the Ming Emperors; comited suicide in 1644 in the face of Jurchen capture of the Forbidden City of Bejing. | 17 | |
| 9155914315 | Oda Nobunaga | (1534-1582) Japenese daimyo; first to make extensive use of firearms; in 1573 deposed last of Ashikaga shoguns; unified much of central Honshu under his command. | 18 | |
| 9155922456 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | General under Nobanga; suceeded as leading military power in Japan; continued efforts to break power of daimyos; constucted a series of military alliances that made him the military master of Japan in 1590; died in 1598. | 19 | |
| 9155924343 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 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. | 20 | |
| 9155937243 | Edo | Tokugawa capital city; modern- day Tokyo; center of the Tokugawa Shogunate. | 21 | |
| 9155957847 | 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 | |
| 9155968482 | School of National Learning | New Ideology that laid emphasis on Japan's unique historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of Chinese imporst such as Confuciansim; typical of Japan in the 18th century. | 23 |
