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Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire, 1500-1800
-threated Ming, made it clear they had china, retook Bejing, challenged later by European states |
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Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire, 1500-1603
-Warlords, had a castle town each, had a band of warriors called samurai, loose alligence to the emperor in Kyoto |
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Literally "those who serve, the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Japan, 1500-1603
-worked for Daimyo, became buerucracy during time of peace, civil war in late 1500's, high social status |
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The last of the three shogunates of Japan, 1600-1868
-new capital at edo, used rice as currency as well as cash, skilled in artisianship, warrior class became bureaucratic |
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Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the Ming saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline, 1368-1644
-fine dishes became known as china, cites were culturally vibrant, operas and novels were written, little ice age effected the climate |
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Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times the Qing also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. The last Qing emperor was overthrown in 1911
-manchus controlled military power, greatest expansion from Kangxi, Jesuits came to china, made contact w. russia |
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He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire, 1654-1722
-short golden age for china, cut rents and interest rates, resettled areas of peasant rebellion,child emperor full @16 |
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This river valley was a contested frontier between northern China and eastern Russia until the settlement arranged in Treaty of Nerchinsk, 1689
-wooden forts on N. bank, treaded lightly in struggle, little benefit in conflict, treaty regulated trade, |
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The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire. Britan and China,1792-1793
-DIDN'T COW TOW, protrayed self as tribute emissary, china had no need to expand foriegn trade, EIC wanted to revise system |
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Russian principality that emerged gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite dynasty ruled without interruption from 1276 to 1598
-surrounded moscow, led movement against golden horde, set out on conquests of expansion, ruled largest state in europe |
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This north-south range separates Siberia from the rest of Russia. It is commonly considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia, 1500-1800
-controlled asian side, third rome, ***,*** |
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From Latincaesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III, 1500-1800
-used as name of mongol rulers, after 1547 only, poor and landlocked in 1600, Peter the Great was a great Tzar |
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The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk,1571-1800
-difficult to live in, extreme cold, took a while to get a political system in, one route to expansion |
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Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
-bands of people, lived on the steppes, comes from a turkic word, provided most of the military |
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An agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some serfs worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861.
-eliminated period to change masters, couldn't run away, hereditary, tied to a piece of land, 1/2 population to 2% masters |
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Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg, 1672-1725
-reduced russia's isolation, westernized and modernized, made nobles dress to european fashions, small but formidable navy, wanted warm water port, didn't until kathrine the great |
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