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| 300997993 | Goa | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on western India coast, 16th century ff.; sites for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network. (p. 667) | 0 | |
| 300997994 | Ormuz | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located at southern end of Persian Gulf; site for forcible entry into Asian sea trade network. (p. 657) | 1 | |
| 300997995 | Malacca | Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the tip of the Malayan peninsula; traditionally a center for trade among the southeastern Asian islands. (p. 326) | 2 | |
| 300997996 | Batavia | Dutch fortress located after 1620 on the island of Java. (p. 659) | 3 | |
| 300997997 | Treaty of Gijanti | Signed in 1757; reduced remaining Javanese princes to vassals of Dutch East India Company; allowed Dutch to monopolize production of coffee on Java. (p. 671) | 4 | |
| 300997998 | Luzon | Northern island of Philippines; conquered by Spain during the 1560s; site of major Catholic missionary effort. (p. 671) | 5 | |
| 300997999 | Canton | One of two port cities in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty. (p. 679) | 6 | |
| 300998000 | Water Margin, The; Monkey; and The Golden Lotus | Novels written during the Ming period in China; recognized as classics in their own time; established standards for Chinese prose literature. (p. 679) | 7 | |
| 300998001 | Zhenghe | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded a series of expeditions to the Indian ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea between 1405 and 1433. | 8 | |
| 300998002 | Matteo Ricci | An Italian Jesuit who by his knowledge of Astronomy and science was accepted as a missionary of China. | 9 | |
| 300998003 | Adam Schall | Along with Matteo Ricci, Jesuit scholar in court of Ming emperors; skilled scientist; won few converts to Christianity. | 10 | |
| 300998004 | Manchus | Jurchen people from region to the northeast of the Chinese empire; seized power following collapse of Ming dynasty; established Qing dynasty, last of imperial houses. (p. 683) | 11 | |
| 300998005 | Nobunaga | Japanese daimyo; first to make extensive use of firearms; in 1573 deposed last of Ashikaga shoguns; unified much of central Honshu under his command; killed in 1582. (p. 684) | 12 | |
| 300998006 | 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. | 13 | |
| 300998007 | 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. | 14 | |
| 300998008 | Edo (Tokyo) | Tokugawa capital city; modern-day Tokyo; center of the Tokugawa shogunate. (p. 685) | 15 | |
| 300998009 | Nagasaki | Long a port open to Dutch traders; one of two Japanese cities on which the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945; devastation of these cities caused Japanese surrender without invasion of home islands. (p. 856) | 16 | |
| 300998010 | 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 imports such as Confucianism; typical of Japan in 18th century. (p. 687) | 17 |
