After peasant forces helped drive the Mongol Yuan from China, which founder proclaimed the Ming dynasty in 1368?

In Ming China, which path most closely connected elite schooling to posts in the imperial bureaucracy?

The Yongle Emperor moved the Ming capital north in 1421, closer to the Mongol frontier. Which city became the capital?

A Muslim eunuch admiral led seven Ming armadas across the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433. Who was he?

What political purpose did Yongle’s treasure fleets serve when rulers abroad sent envoys back to China?

Which route best matches the later Ming treasure voyages?

After the last treasure voyage returned in 1433, what did Ming officials do with the huge state expeditions?

Early Ming sea bans allowed state tribute trade but sharply restricted what activity by Chinese coastal people?

In 1644, Wu Sangui joined the Manchus against Li Zicheng near the eastern end of the Great Wall. Which pass opened the road to Beijing?

The Manchus who entered Beijing in 1644 ruled China under which dynastic name?

A 1645 Qing hair order turned men’s hairstyle into a sign of submission. Which style did Han Chinese men have to wear?

Before and after the conquest, Manchu power rested on hereditary military-social units that enrolled Manchu, Mongol, and Han soldiers and their families. What were they called?

How did Qing rulers govern a huge Han Chinese majority without replacing every Ming institution?

Kangxi’s forces defeated the Zheng family’s Ming loyalist regime on Taiwan in 1683. What was the result?

Qianlong’s 1750s campaigns against the Dzungars added which frontier region to the Qing empire?

Under the later Canton system, at which port did European maritime traders conduct Qing-approved trade?

At Canton, European merchants had to deal through licensed Chinese firms. What was this guild called?

Which rule fit the foreign factories at Canton in the 1700s?

Lord Macartney’s embassy reached Qianlong’s court in 1793 seeking broader British trade. What was the Qing answer?

How were European traders normally expected to communicate with Qing officials under the Canton system?

Which Japanese leader won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and founded the Edo shogunate after receiving the shogun title in 1603?

In the Tokugawa order, where was real military government centered while the emperor remained in Kyoto?

What did sankin kotai require many daimyo to do?

The 1635 revision of the Laws for the Military Houses made attendance at Edo in turns a legal duty for daimyo. How did this help the shogunate control them?

How were han domains governed under the Tokugawa bakuhan system?

Which statement best compares Qing China and Tokugawa Japan’s political centers?

A 1635 Tokugawa edict tried to control overseas contact by Japanese subjects. What did it forbid?

After the Shimabara-Amakusa uprising was crushed in 1638, which Europeans were expelled from Japan in 1639?

After 1641, which European traders were still allowed under tight restrictions at Dejima in Nagasaki harbor?

Which statement best describes Tokugawa Japan’s so-called isolation?