P.E.R.S.I.A.N Chart East Asia 1500-1750
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- Qing Dynasty restored integrity in China’s political structure after the days of the Ming.
- Women’s conditions worsened with Ming and Qing policies.
- China’s population grew dramatically as a result of American food crops.
- Importance of silver to economy increased.
- Maritime trade in the global community decreased with late Ming Dynasty’s policies.
- Popular culture in the cities encouraged tea houses, wine shops, popular novels,etc., among urban residents.
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- Asia was the center of global trade in the early modern era. Europeans wanted to trade for Chinese silk and porcelain.
- Asian silk, cotton, and porcelain were the highest quality mass-produced items in the world.
- Europe, South Asia, and China accounted for about 70 percent of the world’s population.
- China was one large empire with a government that did not feel the pressure to improve military technology. Trade in the Indian Ocean was peaceful; merchant ships sailed unarmed.
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- Return of Roman Catholic Christianity through missionaries.
- By the end of the period, Christianity had nearly disappeared.
- Jesuits spread Christianity through China but often adopted Chinese traditions and values.
- In both China and Japan Confucianism remained popular.
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- Asian people had life expectancy of between thirty and forty years of age.
- peasants gave up much of their crop yield to landlords and their respective governments.
- Footbinding still occurred in China.
- Merchants were the ones making money.
- Death before dishonor, service and self sacrifice is what samurai lived by in Japan.
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- Printing and advanced manufactured goods pour out of china like Porcelain, Silk,tea, gunpowder.
- Chinese invented the first magnetic compass.
- China was the leader in many industries such as paper medicine and textiles (considered center of trade for the world)
- Japan remained isolated and only allowed the Dutch to land on their island the others were killed.
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- Japanese architecture contains pointed arches and gateways throughout the country.
- Japan was really into the arts, and in great detail. Many of the Japanese art have Mount Fuji in the background of their work.
- Chinese art contains nature while Japanese focuses on detail, color, and people, but does also have many nature pictures.
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- China's sea ports on the eastern coast were key to their trading success with the Americas.
- Silk Road still used for trade.
- Japan had an excellent position to trade with China and the Americas but remained isolated.