Homework

Chapter 15 Lesson 1

1. Who was Hong Wu?
2. What was Hong Wu's government based on?
3. How did Hong Wu improve China's economy?
4. Who was Yong Le?
5. How did China grow under Hong Wu and Yong Le?
6. What Confucian idea did Hong Wu ignore when he later showed cruelty to people?
7. Why did China stop all seafaring?
8. Why did the Ming rulers not let merchants trade outside of China?
9. What is isolation?
10. Give some examples of the Ming emperors building China's strength from within.
11. In what areas did growth happen during the Ming period have in China?
12. What important developments took place under Yong Le's successors?
13. Why do you think the Portuguese would not easily give up trade with the Chinese?
14. What caused the Ming dynasty to fall?
15. When the shoguns closed Japan to the rest of the world, what did they keep out of Japan?
16. Why might you expect the craft workers and merchants to be higher on the social ladder than the farmers?
17. Who began to trade with the Japan in the 1500's?
18. What did Ieyasu think would threaten Japan's unity?
19. What was Bushido?
20. What was the closed country policy?
21. What changes took place in the way China and Japan saw themselves in relation to the rest of the world?