SSWH11- Social and Political Policies and China and Japan

What was the significance of foreign diplomats "kowtowing" to the Chinese emperor or his representatives?

• It meant that diplomats relinquished all their rights in the Forbidden City.

• It meant that foreign missionaries could no longer visit China.

• It meant that diplomats recognized the superiority of the Chinese emperor.

• It meant that diplomats had full trading rights equal to those of China.

How did the Chinese manage to enforce new regulations regarding trade with foreigners and achieve success in doing so during the period of isolationism?

• The same rules were imposed by all countries that traded with China.

• The number of countries that traded with China was limited.

• Foreigners were fearful of China’s military.

• Chinese goods were in high demand.

Zheng He

• was great Mongol leader

• was the greatest Ming emperor

• defeated the Mongols in China

• was a great Chinese explorer

What factors lead to the Ming dynasty's decline? More than one answer.

• low taxes

• food shortages

• poor leadership

• decline in trade

• internal conflict

The term shogun means

• supreme military commander.
• merchant.
• land owner.
• emperor.

What was the strict Samurai code of rules called?

• Ming
• Bushido
• han rules
• the covenent

Other than isolationism, what other reason did China have for limiting trade?

• Europeans valued their goods at much higher than their actual worth.

• China wanted to prevent its ports from being polluted by foreign ships.

• China feared Christian evangelism was harming Confucian tradition.

• Europeans continued to produce porcelain, tea, and silk in excess. 

What is the correct ranking of power within the hierarchy of Japanese feudalism, listed from highest to lowest?

• merchant, samurai, daimyo, shogun

• shogun, daimyo, samurai, merchant

• samurai, daimyo, shogun, merchant

• shogun, samurai, merchant, daimyo

How did the Tokugawa shoguns exert political control over the daimyo in 17th century Japan?

• They killed the daimyo’s draft animals.
• They kept the daimyo’s family in Edo as hostages.
• They exiled the daimyo to Korea.
• Nothing, the shoguns did not exert political control over the daimyo.

Which man completed the unification of Japan and set up a shogunate in Japan to maintain that control?

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi

• Ito Hirohito

• Oda Nobunaga

• Tokugawa Ieyasu