Exam 21: Regulating the Inner and Outer Domains: China and Japan, 1500-1800

The Qing employed a "loose rein" or "using barbarians to check barbarians" in respect to the Mongols and the ____________ in the 1720s.

All of the following are true of the single-whip system EXCEPT:

The Manchus who ruled China constituted about __% of the population:

In order to prevent any serious challenges to the samurai class's military role, the Tokugawa:

In Japan, the Gekokujo ("those below toppling those above") period of civil war erupted in 1467 and continued, on and off, until the ________.

The "queue edict" mandated that:

With the traditional threats from the borders now quashed, the reign of the __________ emperor, from 1736 to 1795, marked both the high point and the beginning of the decline of the Qing dynasty-and of imperial China itself.

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 Manchu state was divided into eight major military and ethnic divisions, each represented by a distinctive ____________, and companies were formed of 300 fighters recruited from families represented by these means.

The poetic form of haiku reached its golden age in the Tokugawa period, and the most renowned practitioner of the form, composed of ___-syllable couplets, was Matsuo Basho.

The Revolt of the Three Feudatories was crushed by:

After the Manchus captured Beijing, some Ming loyalists fled to the island of Taiwan, where they expelled the ________, who had established a trading base there.

Which of the following is the proper chronological order?

The high point of the Qing dynasty was during the rule of

In 1549 the Franciscan missionary ___________ landed in Japan.

The "Three Excellences" were:

The Tokugawa attempt to conquer China in the late sixteenth century was led by:

Kangxi's 13 _________, embodying maxims distilled in part from Zhu Xi's thought, became the official Qing creed from 1670 on.

In the fall of 1600, the back of the western coalition of daimyos was broken by the Tokugawa victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, near __________.

All of the following was true of the banner system EXCEPT: