Chapter 27 of the "World Civilizations" text is written concerning the "Asian transitions in a time of Global Change."
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| 327188670 | Caravel | ships used by Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries. These were used by da Gama in his famous trip to the Indies. | 0 | |
| 327188671 | Asian Sea Trading Network | a trading center that can be divided up into three parts, each section a major hub of handicraft and manufacture. | 1 | |
| 327188672 | Ormuz | the trading center at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, whch the Europeans captured in 1507. | 2 | |
| 327188673 | Goa | a trading center in the western Indian coast, which was captured by Europeans in 1510. | 3 | |
| 327188674 | Batavia | the new Dutch port, established on the island of java, built in 1620, after the Dutch took over the Portuguese trading fortress at Malacca. | 4 | |
| 327188675 | Dutch Trading Empire | was made up of fortified towns and factories, warships on patrol, and monopolies on a limited number of products. | 5 | |
| 327188676 | Luzon | the northern island of the philippines that was invaded by the Spanish in the 1560s. The Spanish were able to conquer them little by little, because they were separated into divided, smaller states. | 6 | |
| 327188677 | Mindanao | A southern island in the Philippines, which the Spanish tried to conquerer (again) and failed. | 7 | |
| 327188678 | Francis Xavier | A Jesuit who was willing to minister to the low caste fishers and untouchables of the along the northwest. | 8 | |
| 327188679 | Robert di Nobili | An Italian Jesuit who devised a different conversion strategy for the Asian region, especially in India. | 9 | |
| 327188680 | Hongwu | Zhu Yuanzhang changed his name to this when he defeated the Mongol rule and established the Ming dynasty, becoming emperor in 1368, and reigning for 30 years. | 10 | |
| 327188681 | Macao and Canton | places in China where Europeans were officially allowed to trade with Ming China. | 11 | |
| 327188682 | Mateo Ricci and Adam Schall | Jesuit missionaries, and brilliant scholars, who spent most of their time in the imperial city, correcting faulty calendars, forging cannons, fixing clocks imported from Europe, and astounding the Chinese scholar-gentry class with the accuracy of their instruments, and ability to predict eclipses. | 12 | |
| 328316747 | Chongzhen | the last Ming Emperor. He did not realize that the rebel advance was a serious threat to the dynasty, until the enemy soldiers were scaling the walls of the Forbidden City. He hung himself, as an alternative to enemy capture. | 13 | |
| 328316748 | Nobunaga | the first of the military leaders to work towards the restoration and unification of Japan. He was a skilled warrior, and fearless. He also began using firearms. | 14 | |
| 328316749 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | was the most able of Nobunaga's generals, and quickly punished those involved in the rebellion, going on to break the power of the daimyos who had not already submitted. | 15 | |
| 328316750 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | the victor of the war for the succession of Hideyoshi's throne. | 16 | |
| 328316751 | Edo (Tokyo) | The place from which the Ieyasu family ruled the daimyos. | 17 | |
| 328316752 | Deshima | an island of Japan, in Nagasaki Bay, for which the only few Dutch and Chinese ships were allowed to sail in to import commerce. | 18 | |
| 328316753 | School of National Learning | ushered in the new ideology of Japan's unique historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of Chinese imports such as Confucianism. | 19 |
