China and Japan 1450 1750 China Ming Dynasty

China and Japan 1450 -1750

China

Ming Dynasty £Chinese drove out Mongol invaders in 1300’s £Ming Dynasty established £Time of great cultural achievement $10 M Ming Vase

£Great Wall rebuilt and reinforced £Civil service exam for gov’t jobs reinstated £Voyages of Zheng He began in 1400’s

The Arrival of the Europeans £Portuguese arrived in 1500’s seeking trade opportunities £New World silver exchanged for Chinese porcelain, silk, and tea £Port of Macao established to regulate trade w/Europeans

Macao Today

£ Arrival of New World crops in China boosted population £ Jesuit missionaries tried to make converts, but were eventually expelled

Japan

Unification £Tukugawa Shogunate established in 1603, ruled until 1863 £Capital moved from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo)

£Greater economic integration led to growth of merchant class

The Arrival of the Europeans £Portuguese reached Japan in 1543 £Western inventions like firearms, clocks, printing press introduced £Merchants soon followed by missionaries

The Spread of Christianity £ Missionaries focused first on converting the daimyo and samurai £ By end of 1500’s, shogun began to see Christianity as a threat £ All missionaries were expelled and the practice of the religion was banned in 1614 £ Active persecution began and Christianity was reduced to an underground faith

Isolation £Isolation of Japan from Christianity turned into isolation of Japan from most outside influence £Dutch and Chinese could only trade through the port of Nagasaki £Only ended in 1863 w/Meiji Restoration