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Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
capital, Dutch, missionaries, Nenet, China, Korea, Muscovy, Tokogawa, rationalist, colonized, beavers, Europe, furs, Lithuania, political, silver, Buddhist, wealth, Diamyos, penetrate, Portuguese
16th century China exemplifies the ways in which the arrival of new              can lead to new concentrations of authority and power
but it is hard to predict at the outset the affect this wealth will have, not only on the country but on the surrounding                    landscape
what was happening in China (Ming dynasty 1368–1644) began to have an effect on its surroundings
Japan
hitherto the primary source of              for China
Japan in the 17th century was beset with internal quarrels not unlike              at this time
regional warlords and ruling households called                struggling for power
you would think that the civil wars would have helped Europe                    and conquer Japan as they did South America, and e.g. the            in South Asia
indeed merchants and                          did arrive at the doorstep in Japan
however, the external threat can have different effects on a country
reasons why Japan did not get                   
1. had an shared                  faith
2. proximity to           , they need to stay together
3. Japan had fought off aggressive armies before, e.g. the Mongols,                     , Dutch
Japan holding together against the external forces (European/China), resulted in the consolidation of the                  Shogunate
kept the Europeans to their outskirts
up a militaristic state system
          
a country squeezed between Japan and China, powerful neighbors
receiving increasing pressures from the north as well: Russia
Russia
               was turning into Russia
silver powered in to                    and Poland
merchants moved to Russia to by staples: e.g.         
the center of Eurasia was beginning to get filled in, fueled by money and capital
the main lure of the region furs and pelts, e.g. from               , by the            hunters in Siberia
drove the frontier into Siberia, a phenomenon similar to North America in the 19th century
fighting protracted war against Mongols
1580s a series of triumphs by Russia
Russia eventually reached the Pacific ocean
Peter the Great (1672-1725)
created new               , St. Petersburg
led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political system with a modern, scientific, Europe-oriented, and                        system
expansion eventually led to encounter with China in central Asia

Vocabulary:

Daimyo, n. [DIGHM-yo] the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings, but subordinate to the shogun, the Daimyo era came to an end in 1871  "Seventeenth century Japan was similar to 17th century Europe in which you had a large land area beset with civil wars, regional warlords and ruling households called Diamyos struggling for power."

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what was the last shogunate of Japan
Tokugawa shogunate (1600–1868)
Columbus and the New World
1500-1700 Indian Ocean Trading system
Da Gama, Pepper and World History
Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
16th Century Colonialism Fueling European Violence
Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
16th and 17th Century Merchant Trading Companies
17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
18th China Resurgent as Qing Dynasty
18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Enlightenment or Empire
18th Century Land Grabbing
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Human Rights and the Meaning of Membership within Societies
Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
The Ottoman Empire's 19th Century Tanzimat Reform
The Early 19th Century Market Revolution
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
The Train, the Rifle, and the Industrial Revolution
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Its Ramifications
Darwin's Effect on 19th Century Ideas
Factors Which Led to the Solidifying of Nation States
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
1899-1911 The End of the Qing Dynasty
The 1910 Mexican Revolution
The Panic of 1907
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
20th Century Questioning of Reason
Late 19th Century Anxieties of Race
The First World War
The End of WWI and the Attempt at Global Peace
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Wilson-Lenin Moment
1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars
1918-1945 Rethinking Economies