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3646758611Matteo RicciAn Italian Jesuit who founded the Jesuit mission in China and became extremely popular in the Ming court.0
3646758612Jesuit missionariesThe most prominent Christian missionaries in China.1
3646758613GuangzhouA trading port in coastal China that was a prominent center of trade with European powers.2
3646758614MingThe Chinese dynasty that took over after the Yuan collapsed; name literally means "brilliant."3
3646758615Great WallA massive structure in northern China meant to protect against invading nomadic peoples.4
3646758616ManchusThe nomadic people who founded the Qing dynasty.5
3646758617QingThe Chinese dynasty that followed the Ming; founded by the Manchus.6
3646758618Forbidden CityA protected imperial retreat in the center of Beijing.7
3646758619BeijingThe Ming imperial capital established by Yongle.8
3646758620KowtowA ritual performed by people having a personal audience with the emperor, including 3 kneelings and 9 head knockings.9
3646758621Foot bindingThe practice of deforming women's feet to keep them subservient to men.10
3646758622Yongle EncyclopediaAn enormous collection of Chinese philosophical, literary and historical texts.11
3646758623Neo-ConfucianismThe combination of the ethical & political values of Confucianism with the logic & speculation of Buddhism.12
3646758624QueueA hairstyle worn by men in which hair is grown long and gathered up into a ponytail. It is often braided.13
3646758625Self-ringing bellsA Chinese term for European chiming clocks.14
3646758626Nestorian ChristiansThe original Christian power in China; they had a presence there starting in the seventh century CE.15
3646758627EdoThe bureaucratic capital of the Tokugawa shogunate; modern Tokyo.16
3646758628DaimyoThe Japanese landowners and nobility.17
3646758629TokugawaThe Japanese state established as a temporary military government in 1600 that ruled until 1867.18
3646758630ShogunTheoretically, the temporary stand-in for the Japanese emperor; "military governor" in Japanese.19
3646758631NagasakiThe only port in Tokugawa Japan in which foreign merchants were allowed to trade.20
3646758632BushidoThe code of the samurai warriors.21
3646795929SamuraiThe military force of the Japanese shoguns.22
3646795930ZenThe Japanese term for Chan Buddhism, or the blend of Buddhism and Chinese teachings.23
3646795931KyotoThe imperial capital of Tokugawa Japan.24
3646795932OsakaThe commercial center of the Japanese islands.25
3646795933Floating worldsCenters of entertainment, pleasure and, general urban culture in Tokugawa cities.26
3646795934KabukiA Japanese theater show consisting of several lively acts containing music, dancing and spectacular staging.27
3646795935Dutch learning/Dutch studiesJapanese studies of the outside world at Nagasaki with the assistance of Dutch merchants.28

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