Japanese Reunification and the Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties

Your Mission if you choose to accept:(Well actually you have to accept so tough)

You and your group will be responsible for creating a presentation on your assigned section

Your presentation MUST include A brief statement (i.e. one sentence) that summarizes the

material and connects it to a broader theme (culture, religion, revolution etc)

A list of the important terms and people required to properly understand the section

You will be responsible for presenting this material to the class. Your presentation should not be more than 10 minutes in length.

All students will take a True/False quiz on the information presented on Thursday!!

Groups

Group 1Civil War and Hideyoshi Biography Group 2 Tokugawa and Tokugawa Ieyasu Group 3 Japan and Europe (Comparison

timeline) Elite and Decline Group 4 Ming Empire and East Asian

Porcelain Group 5 Ming Collapse and Muchara

Japanese Positions

Emperor Shogun Daimyo Samurai

Hideyoshi

Most successful of the warlords in the late 1500’s

Invaded mainland Asia with the goal of becoming Emperor of China Korea would not allow him to pass through

Why was Korea more likely to take the Chinese side in this conflict?

Invasion of Korea briefly successful but Japanese military leaders leave after Hideyoshi’s death

Effects of Hideyoshi

Korean Yangban take more tax-paying land Decreases the income of the royal family by as

much as 2/3 China weakened from fighting in Manchuria

Opens the door for the Manchu

Tokugawa Shogunate

Take administrative control of the country after the death of Hideyoshi

Economic integration Daimyo required to visit Edo frequently Rice as a form of currency

Speculation Edo one of the largest cities in the world

Merchants gain power Samurai become accustomed to the finer things in

life and lose some of their status

Interaction with Europe

Firearms Little commercial interaction

Closely regulated by the government Catholic missionaries

Jesuits 1614 accusation of sedition leads to era of persecution Complete eradication of the religion

Government office dedicated to preventing the reestablishment

Lack of European trade “the price to pay” for being rid of Christian influence

Destabilizing Forces in Japan

Rapid population growth Rapid Economic growth

Inability to stabilize rice prices Economic woes of the Samurai “Forty-Seven Ronin” incident

The Ming Empire

Assembly-line production Urban centers of cultural and commercial

development Merit based system of government revolving

around Confucian teachings

Collapse of the Ming

Little Ice Age Rapid Urban Growth Economic Expansion Corruption

Inefficiency Labor uprisings and strikes

Collapse of the Ming

Insecure boarders Fighting with the Mongols of the north and west Mongols united under the Dalai Lama and present

a unified invasion force Manchus called in to help expel the

Japanese…. And stay Manchu start the Qing dynasty