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| queue | braided pigtail that was traditionally worn by Chinese males; means to identify anti-Manchu (Qing) rebels |
| banner | in Qing China, separate military unit of Manchus; empire's chief fighting force |
| Ming | dynasty from 1368 - 1644; founder Ming Hong Wu; China extends rule to Mongolia, central Asia, Vietnam; era of greatness |
| Zheng He | court official to Yong Le (son of Ming Hong Wu); led seven voyages of exploration from 1405 to 1433 to India and East Africa |
| Le Zicheng | led peasant revolt against Ming rules |
| Manchu | from Manchuria, defeated Li Zicheng, declared new (Qing, "pure") dynasty |
| Qing | Manchurian dynasty; 1644 - 1911 |
| Kangxi | Greatest emperor, reigned 61 years 1661 - 1722; |
| White Lotus Rebellion | rebellion against Qing ; suppressed but weakened dynasty |
| Commercial capitalism | economic system in which people invest in trade or goods to make profits |
| clan | group of related families |
| footbinding | restricted mobility of Chinese women; status symbol |
| porcelain | ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures |
| The Golden Lotus | first realistic social novel |
| Cao Xuegin | author of China's most distinguished popular novel "The Dream of the Red Chamber" published 1791 |
| Yong Le | second Ming emperor; began construction of the Imperial City in Beijing in 1406 |
| daimyo | "great names"; heads of noble families in Japan; controlled vast estates and relied on samurai for protection |
| han | one of approximately 250 domains into which Japan was divided under the Tokugawa |
| hostage system | used by shogunate to control the daimyo in Tokugawa Japan; family of daimyo lord forced to stay in residence in capital whenever lord absent from it |
| eta | Japan's outcast class whose way of life was strictly regulated by the Tokugawa |
| Oda Nobunaga | seized imperial capital of Kyoto; placed reigning shogun under his control; tried to consolidate rule through Japan's central plains |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | succeeded Nobunaga; military commander; capital at Osaka; authority accepted by most daimyo by 1590 |
| Tokugawa leyasu | powerful daimyo of Edo (now Tokyo); took control of Japan after Hideyoshi's death in 1598; took title of shogun |
| Tokugawa rulers | completed restoration of central authority begun by Nobunaga and Hideyoshi; brought the "Great Peace" |
| Matsuo Basho | greatest of all Japanese poets; 17th century |
| Yi dynasty | ruled Korea from end of 14th century through entire Tokugawa Era; capital Hanyang (Seoul); the Hermit Kingdom"; attacked by Hideyoshi and then a Manchu army |
