1. Which of the following is the correct chronological order?
Founding of the Ming Dynasty; establishment of Tokugawa Shogunate; Shimabara Rebellion.
Establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate; founding of the Ming Dynasty; the Shimabara Rebellion.
The Shimabara Rebellion, the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate; the founding of the Ming Dynasty
Founding of the Ming Dynasty; founding the Tokugawa Shogunate; Shimabara Rebellion
2. Which of the following is the proper chronological order?
Zheng He's nautical exploration, reign of the Kangxi emperor; Matteo Ricci reaches China
Reign of the Kangxi emperor; Zheng He's nautical explorations; Matteo Ricci reaches China.
Zheng He's nautical explorations, Matteo Ricci reaches China, reign of the Kangxi Emperor
Matteo Ricci reaches China; rein of the Kangxi Emperor; Zheng He's nautical explorations
3. The Tokugawa attempt to conquer China in the late sixteenth century was led by:
Oda Nobunaga
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Hongwu
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
4. During the period between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, China's population was reduced from about 100 million to about 60 million by:
The Mongol invasion
Banditry, fighting, and lingering effects of the Black Death
Constant wars with the Japanese
Raids by Western European navies
5. The addition of important new food crops was an important factor in Chinese population growth, resulting in populations of:
About 60 million in 1368 to 150 million in 1600, and about 300 million by 1800.
About 60 million in 1368 to 100 million in 1500, to about 200 million by 1800.
About 60 million in 1368 to 200 million in 1500, to about 250 million by 1800.
About 60 million in 1368 to 75 million in 1500, to about 400 million by 1800.
6. Two leaders who led the Manchus to military might by the seventeenth century were:
Nurhachi and Abahai
Kongxi and Abahai
Nurhachi and Liadong
Abahai and Wu Sangui
7. All of the following was true of the banner system EXCEPT:
The Chinese, as a conquered people, were not allowed to participate.
Developed for military and tax purposes.
Originally organized for mobile warriors.
The chief administrative tool of the Manchu leadership.
8. There were ___ banner organizations:
5
10
6
8
9. The Manchus who ruled China constituted about __% of the population:
10
2
5
15
10. The "queue edict" mandated that:
Manchu females were forbidden to bind their feet.
Chinese men could continue wearing their hair in traditional styles
Chinese men had to adopt the Manchu style of shaving their entire heads.
Chinese men had to adopt the Manchu style of a shaved forehead with a long braid in back.
11. For much of the 17th century ________ remained the primary task of the Manchu rulers.
pacification of the empire
conquest of the empire
conquest of Japan
creating a new, religious order
12. The Manchu conceived of their state as the embodiment of :
all the peoples within it
Han Chinese dominance
Manchu dominance
a return to Mongol-style conquest
13. The high point of the Qing dynasty was during the rule of
The Qianlong emperor
The Kangxi emperor
Matteo Ricci
Nurhachi
14. The earliest Christian missionaries encountered by the Ming dynasty were:
The Jesuits and the Franciscans
The Jesuits and the Dominicans
The Franciscans and Dominicans
The Cistercians and the Franciscans
16. In the Canton trade (the commercial trade between Europe and Asia), all of the following are true EXCEPT:
The Qing dynasty incorporated the European merchants into the diplomatic system during the seventeenth century.
The British East India Company used its base at Calcutta to try to expand its operations in China.
The Qing dynasty tried to permit European trade only in the port of Guangzhou (known as Canton by Europeans).
The Qing were concerned that foreign traders were working with Ming loyalists against their rule.
17. In the context of European trade with Asia, a "factory" is:
The place where Asian goods are manufactured for the European markets.
The diplomatic quarters in Beijing, called "factory" because they were headed up by a "factor."
The place where merchants, local agents, and other interested parties gathered to conduct business.
The place European merchants brought their wives and other family members to stay during the trading seasons.
19. Most of our information about the lives of Chinese peasants comes from all of the following sources EXCEPT:
Diaries and family histories kept by peasant leaders.
Literary sources compiled by the scholar-gentry.
Chronicles produced by Westerners traveling in China.
Local histories and gazetteers.
21. In regard to military might and technology, the Ming have been characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A military superpower.
Possessing technologically capable of producing thousands of cannon and handguns each year
Reliant on diplomacy and negotiations in the best Confucian tradition
On their way to developing a powerful navy
The "Three Excellences" were:
Poetry, painting, and calligraphy
Confucian essays, painting, and calligraphy.
Garden landscaping, calligraphy, and poetry.
Classical Chinese opera, classical dance, and poetry.
The Japanese daimyo were:
A class of high-level bureaucrats.
Another term for the samurai.
Regional warlords.
The codes of honor that governed the behavior of samurai.
Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, three powerful emperors of the Qing, strove to validate their reigns by all of the following EXCEPT:
Supporting creative artists and poets even when they were unorthodox.
Being patrons of the arts.
Setting the tone in aesthetic matters.
Initiating mammoth cultural projects.