AP World History Ch. 27 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 3646758611 | Matteo Ricci | An Italian Jesuit who founded the Jesuit mission in China and became extremely popular in the Ming court. | 0 | |
| 3646758612 | Jesuit missionaries | The most prominent Christian missionaries in China. | 1 | |
| 3646758613 | Guangzhou | A trading port in coastal China that was a prominent center of trade with European powers. | 2 | |
| 3646758614 | Ming | The Chinese dynasty that took over after the Yuan collapsed; name literally means "brilliant." | 3 | |
| 3646758615 | Great Wall | A massive structure in northern China meant to protect against invading nomadic peoples. | 4 | |
| 3646758616 | Manchus | The nomadic people who founded the Qing dynasty. | 5 | |
| 3646758617 | Qing | The Chinese dynasty that followed the Ming; founded by the Manchus. | 6 | |
| 3646758618 | Forbidden City | A protected imperial retreat in the center of Beijing. | 7 | |
| 3646758619 | Beijing | The Ming imperial capital established by Yongle. | 8 | |
| 3646758620 | Kowtow | A ritual performed by people having a personal audience with the emperor, including 3 kneelings and 9 head knockings. | 9 | |
| 3646758621 | Foot binding | The practice of deforming women's feet to keep them subservient to men. | 10 | |
| 3646758622 | Yongle Encyclopedia | An enormous collection of Chinese philosophical, literary and historical texts. | 11 | |
| 3646758623 | Neo-Confucianism | The combination of the ethical & political values of Confucianism with the logic & speculation of Buddhism. | 12 | |
| 3646758624 | Queue | A hairstyle worn by men in which hair is grown long and gathered up into a ponytail. It is often braided. | 13 | |
| 3646758625 | Self-ringing bells | A Chinese term for European chiming clocks. | 14 | |
| 3646758626 | Nestorian Christians | The original Christian power in China; they had a presence there starting in the seventh century CE. | 15 | |
| 3646758627 | Edo | The bureaucratic capital of the Tokugawa shogunate; modern Tokyo. | 16 | |
| 3646758628 | Daimyo | The Japanese landowners and nobility. | 17 | |
| 3646758629 | Tokugawa | The Japanese state established as a temporary military government in 1600 that ruled until 1867. | 18 | |
| 3646758630 | Shogun | Theoretically, the temporary stand-in for the Japanese emperor; "military governor" in Japanese. | 19 | |
| 3646758631 | Nagasaki | The only port in Tokugawa Japan in which foreign merchants were allowed to trade. | 20 | |
| 3646758632 | Bushido | The code of the samurai warriors. | 21 | |
| 3646795929 | Samurai | The military force of the Japanese shoguns. | 22 | |
| 3646795930 | Zen | The Japanese term for Chan Buddhism, or the blend of Buddhism and Chinese teachings. | 23 | |
| 3646795931 | Kyoto | The imperial capital of Tokugawa Japan. | 24 | |
| 3646795932 | Osaka | The commercial center of the Japanese islands. | 25 | |
| 3646795933 | Floating worlds | Centers of entertainment, pleasure and, general urban culture in Tokugawa cities. | 26 | |
| 3646795934 | Kabuki | A Japanese theater show consisting of several lively acts containing music, dancing and spectacular staging. | 27 | |
| 3646795935 | Dutch learning/Dutch studies | Japanese studies of the outside world at Nagasaki with the assistance of Dutch merchants. | 28 |