HISTORY

• Ming Dynasty


  China become the dominant power in Asia under this dynasty
• Hongwu


  • A peasant's son
  • Commanded the rebel army
  • Ruled in the former Yuan capital of Nanjing in the south
  • Died in 1398
• Yonglo


  • Son of Hongwu
  • Continued his father's policies
  • Moved the royal court to Beijing
• Zheng He


  • A Chinese Muslim admiral
  • Led all of the 7 voyages
  • Voyages ranged from Southeast Asia to Eastern Africa
• Kangxi


  • Became emperor in 1661
  • Ruled for some 60 years
  • Reduced government expenses and lowered taxes
  • A scholar and patron of the arts
• Qian-long


  • Grandson of Kangxi
  • Ruled from 1736 to 1795
  • An industrious emperor
• Confucianism


  A universally valid social philosophy that was developed in China
• Chinese Doctrinal central role of the emperor in the political system
• Japan

  • Loose collection of local political units
• Shogunate or Bakufu


  A military dictatorship
• Taihe Hall


  • Hall of Supreme Harmony
• Zhonge Hall


  • hall of central harmony
• Nine-Dragon Wall


  • A screen of glazed tiles showing nine dragons playing with pearls
• Manchus


  • People in Manchuria who invaded Ming dynasty and China
  • Seized Beijing, and their leader became China's new emperor
• Qing Dynasty


  Ruled for more than 260 years and expanded China's borders
• Nationalism


  A religious belief that the country is the center of the world
• Sakoku


  Policy of exclusion or national isolation
• Imperial System


  Time of a rapid transformation in Japan
• Buddhists found the foreign religion a threat to their influence
• Meiji Restoration


  A political revolution that brought final demise
• Mutsuhito


  • The emperor of Meiji
• Imperial Japan


  A policy of foreign conquest
• Russo-Japanese war was a clash of Russian and Japanese
• Russo-Japanese war resulted in VICTORY for Japan
• Zaibatsu


  Refers to industrial and financial business conglomerates
• 3 Laws

  • Public Peace Police Law (1900)
  • Special Higher Police (1911)
  • Peace Preservation Law (1925)