AP World History Flashcards

106693660	Bakufu	the centralized government set up in Japan in the twelfth century	0
106693661	Bannermen	primary fighting force of Qing empire, Manchurians were organized into military units	1
106693662	Chinoiserie	general European term for Chinese art	2
106693663	Chonmin	Korean slave class	3
106693664	Clan	or lineage, extended kinship unit consisting of dozens or hundreds of joint and nuclear families linked together by a clan council of elders	4
106693665	Daimyo	prominent Japanese families who provided allegiance to the local shogun in exchange for protection	5
106693666	Dyarchy	Qing system where administrative positions were shared between the Chinese and Manchurians	6
106693667	Eta	Japanese outcasts	7
106693668	Fudai	"inside" daimyo, small daimyo directly subordinate to the shogunate	8
106693669	Han	separate Japanese territories	9
106693670	Hangul	phonetic alphabet based on Chinese for writing the Korean spoken language	10
106693671	Ie	Japanese nuclear family	11
106693672	Kabuki	new form of Japanese theatre that featured violence, music and dramatic gestures, popular in Tokugawa period, challenged the more traditional and restrained No drama	12
106693673	Queue	braided hair, the Manchurians forced the Chinese to shave their foreheads and braid their hair as a sign of submission	13
106693674	Ronin	"wave men," unemployed samurai who sometimes rebelled against the local authorities	14
106693675	Samurai	literally "retainer"; usually in service to a particular shogun, these warriors lived by a strict code of ethics and duty	15
106693676	Shogunate system	the system of government in Japan in which the emperor exercised only titular authority while the shogun exercised actual political power	16
106693677	"Thinning out"	Japanese euphemism for infanticide to keep the population rate down	17
106693678	Tozama	"outside" daimyo, larger and more independent lords	18
106693679	Tribute system	an important element of Chinese foreign policy, by which neighboring states paid for the privilege of access to Chinese markets, received legitimization and agreed not to harbor enemies of the Chinese Empire	19
106693680	Yangban	Korean aristocratic classes	20