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

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced a woodblock print depicting Thirty-Six Views of _________ that also became famous in the West.

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Question 21

"_______ learning" was especially prized in the Tokugawa period, with their representatives retaining yearly access to the shogunate and exerting influence on prominent Japanese intellectual.

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Question 22

Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, three powerful emperors of the Qing (a foreign, Manchu dynasty), strove to validate their reigns by all of the following EXCEPT:

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Question 23

The _______ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region.

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Question 24

In regard to military might and technology, the Ming have been characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

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Question 25

All of the following is true of the Donglin Academy EXCEPT:

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Question 26

The conclusion that porcelain was the single most important commodity in the unfolding world commercial revolution between 1500 and 1800 is supported by all of the following except:

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Question 27

China's population grew from its low of perhaps 60 million at the beginning of the Ming period to an estimated ________ million by 1600.

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Question 28

The items representing the artistic and aesthetic tastes of the court and the samurai were:

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Question 29

The Popes found Jesuit practices in China like ___________ problematic.

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Question 30

In the commercial trade between Europe and China, all of the following are true EXCEPT:

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Question 31

There were ___ banner organizations:

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Question 32

Armillary spheres and a celestial globe were cast by Chinese artisans to the specifications of the ________ court mathematician Ferdinand Verbiest in the 1680s.

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Question 33

By one estimate, in 1450 ________ of the Ming frontier military units had cannon, most of which were produced in arsenals like Junqiju.

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Question 34

All of the following are true about the "Rites Controversy" EXCEPT:

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Question 35

The system devised under the Tokugawa bakufu ("_______", referring to the shogun's official status as the emperor's mobile deputy) was called sankin kotai, the "rule of alternate attendance".

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Question 36

Some signs of economic stress were already present toward the end of Qianlong's reign, and chief among these was the problem of:

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Question 37

After another doubling of its population by 1800, China moved toward what some historical demographers have called a high-level equilibrium trap, a condition in which:

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Question 38

The _________ East India Company, having established its base at Calcutta in 1690, soon sought to expand its operations to China.

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Question 39

The Japanese daimyo were:

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

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced a woodblock print depicting Thirty-Six Views of _________ that also became famous in the West.

"_______ learning" was especially prized in the Tokugawa period, with their representatives retaining yearly access to the shogunate and exerting influence on prominent Japanese intellectual.

Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, three powerful emperors of the Qing (a foreign, Manchu dynasty), strove to validate their reigns by all of the following EXCEPT:

The _______ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region.

In regard to military might and technology, the Ming have been characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

All of the following is true of the Donglin Academy EXCEPT:

The conclusion that porcelain was the single most important commodity in the unfolding world commercial revolution between 1500 and 1800 is supported by all of the following except:

China's population grew from its low of perhaps 60 million at the beginning of the Ming period to an estimated ________ million by 1600.

The items representing the artistic and aesthetic tastes of the court and the samurai were:

The Popes found Jesuit practices in China like ___________ problematic.

In the commercial trade between Europe and China, all of the following are true EXCEPT:

There were ___ banner organizations:

Armillary spheres and a celestial globe were cast by Chinese artisans to the specifications of the ________ court mathematician Ferdinand Verbiest in the 1680s.

By one estimate, in 1450 ________ of the Ming frontier military units had cannon, most of which were produced in arsenals like Junqiju.

All of the following are true about the "Rites Controversy" EXCEPT:

The system devised under the Tokugawa bakufu ("_______", referring to the shogun's official status as the emperor's mobile deputy) was called sankin kotai, the "rule of alternate attendance".

Some signs of economic stress were already present toward the end of Qianlong's reign, and chief among these was the problem of:

After another doubling of its population by 1800, China moved toward what some historical demographers have called a high-level equilibrium trap, a condition in which:

The _________ East India Company, having established its base at Calcutta in 1690, soon sought to expand its operations to China.

The Japanese daimyo were:

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