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The three great unifiers of Japan - correct answer...✔✔1) Oda Nobunaga(1534-1582)
-son of samurai
-seized Kyoto
-destroyed the military power of the great Buddhist monasteries
-promoted trade
-opened Nagasaki(became Japan's largest port)
- Committed Seppuku bc one of his general betrayed him
2) Toyotomi Hideyoshi(1537-1598)
-son of farmer
-avenged death of Oda Nobunaga
-conquered northern and western Japan
- bribed daimyo for allegiance
- improved tax collection
-invaded Korea which resulted in his death
3) Tokugawa Ieyasu(1545-1616)
-governed Hideyoshi's son Hideyori
- built his own government
- established alternate residency system
Shōen - correct answer...✔✔-A large rural estate where no tax was paid to the emperor
St. Francis Xavier - correct answer...✔✔-One of the most notorious wako captains
acted as their first interpreter, and St. Francis Xavier himself arrived from Malacca on
board a pirate ship in 1549. As will be noted below, the missionaries' courage and
devotion were phenomenal; by the time Japan's rulers turned against Christianity,
expelling its missionaries and persecuting their converts, thousands had embraced the
new fait.
-the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times who was instrumental in the
establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan.
Tanegashima - correct answer...✔✔- an island of Japan where the portuguese first
showed up with guns
- became the japanese word for gun
Onin War - correct answer...✔✔- seperates early muromachi period from late
muromachi/sengoku period
AGRADESOLTIONS
, - launched the local wars of Sengoku period
- destroyed 1/3 of kyoto, so few buildings remain pre 1447
- the disruption of kyoto caused cultural leaders to become refugees and relocate, which
spread high culture across Japan
great invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 - correct answer...✔✔-Failure to conquer
Japan
-Attempted and failed to conquer Japan in 1274 and 1281.
-Both times the Japanese turned them back. 2nd invasion a typhoon happened.
-First and only country to defend from the Mongols twice.
12th century the Kamakura bakufu - correct answer...✔✔-In 1180, discontent over who
was to be Japan's next emperor and Minamoto hostilities from past banishment led to a
five-year war between the Taira and Minamoto samurai clans.
- Two brothers, Minamoto Yoritomo and Minamoto Yoshitsune, fought side by side and
defeated the Taira. Yoritomo then up a complex bakufu, or tent government, in
Kamakura, thus giving the era its name.
-The period began with the appointment of Minamoto no Yoritomo as shogun in the year
1192; it highlighted the emergence of a new dual government system between the
Imperial Court in Kyoto and the Kamakura Bafuku, whereby emperors reigned but
shoguns ruled.
- He was in power for 7 years and after falling off of a horse.
Ashikaga - correct answer...✔✔-In Japan, the brilliant culture created at the imperial
capital by Ashikaga shoguns drew daimyo from all parts of the country to establish
residences at Kyoto, and it was their concentration on matters at the center that created
the competition among provincial warlords from which Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and
Ieyasu emerged as unifiers.
Manchus - correct answer...✔✔-The Manchus conquered Korea, Mongolia, and china
and established the Qing Dynasty in the 1680s (China's Last Dynasty).
-The Qing was at its height in the 18th century. Kangxi learned to speak, read, and write
Chinese.
-He claimed the Mandate of Heaven for the Manchus. Defeated the Last of the Ming
Loyalists.
AGRADESOLTIONS
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The three great unifiers of Japan - correct answer...✔✔1) Oda Nobunaga(1534-1582)
-son of samurai
-seized Kyoto
-destroyed the military power of the great Buddhist monasteries
-promoted trade
-opened Nagasaki(became Japan's largest port)
- Committed Seppuku bc one of his general betrayed him
2) Toyotomi Hideyoshi(1537-1598)
-son of farmer
-avenged death of Oda Nobunaga
-conquered northern and western Japan
- bribed daimyo for allegiance
- improved tax collection
-invaded Korea which resulted in his death
3) Tokugawa Ieyasu(1545-1616)
-governed Hideyoshi's son Hideyori
- built his own government
- established alternate residency system
Shōen - correct answer...✔✔-A large rural estate where no tax was paid to the emperor
St. Francis Xavier - correct answer...✔✔-One of the most notorious wako captains
acted as their first interpreter, and St. Francis Xavier himself arrived from Malacca on
board a pirate ship in 1549. As will be noted below, the missionaries' courage and
devotion were phenomenal; by the time Japan's rulers turned against Christianity,
expelling its missionaries and persecuting their converts, thousands had embraced the
new fait.
-the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times who was instrumental in the
establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan.
Tanegashima - correct answer...✔✔- an island of Japan where the portuguese first
showed up with guns
- became the japanese word for gun
Onin War - correct answer...✔✔- seperates early muromachi period from late
muromachi/sengoku period
AGRADESOLTIONS
, - launched the local wars of Sengoku period
- destroyed 1/3 of kyoto, so few buildings remain pre 1447
- the disruption of kyoto caused cultural leaders to become refugees and relocate, which
spread high culture across Japan
great invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 - correct answer...✔✔-Failure to conquer
Japan
-Attempted and failed to conquer Japan in 1274 and 1281.
-Both times the Japanese turned them back. 2nd invasion a typhoon happened.
-First and only country to defend from the Mongols twice.
12th century the Kamakura bakufu - correct answer...✔✔-In 1180, discontent over who
was to be Japan's next emperor and Minamoto hostilities from past banishment led to a
five-year war between the Taira and Minamoto samurai clans.
- Two brothers, Minamoto Yoritomo and Minamoto Yoshitsune, fought side by side and
defeated the Taira. Yoritomo then up a complex bakufu, or tent government, in
Kamakura, thus giving the era its name.
-The period began with the appointment of Minamoto no Yoritomo as shogun in the year
1192; it highlighted the emergence of a new dual government system between the
Imperial Court in Kyoto and the Kamakura Bafuku, whereby emperors reigned but
shoguns ruled.
- He was in power for 7 years and after falling off of a horse.
Ashikaga - correct answer...✔✔-In Japan, the brilliant culture created at the imperial
capital by Ashikaga shoguns drew daimyo from all parts of the country to establish
residences at Kyoto, and it was their concentration on matters at the center that created
the competition among provincial warlords from which Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and
Ieyasu emerged as unifiers.
Manchus - correct answer...✔✔-The Manchus conquered Korea, Mongolia, and china
and established the Qing Dynasty in the 1680s (China's Last Dynasty).
-The Qing was at its height in the 18th century. Kangxi learned to speak, read, and write
Chinese.
-He claimed the Mandate of Heaven for the Manchus. Defeated the Last of the Ming
Loyalists.
AGRADESOLTIONS
