| A | B |
|---|
| Beijing | the capital city of China, established when the Moguls ruled China |
| famine | a serious shortage of food; a problem in China during Mongol rule |
| Ming Dynasty | a time of peace/prosperity in China, lasting 276 years |
| Yung Lo | Perhaps the greatest ruler during the Ming Dynasty |
| Forbidden City | palace built within Beijing as a home for the emperor |
| isolationism | policy of keeping a nation isolated, or apart, from other nations |
| Macao | peninsula in southern China that Portuguese traders were limited to |
| shoguns | military leaders of Japan |
| daimyos | local landowners of Japan |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Japanese shogun who stopped almost all foreign influence in Japan and strengthened Japans’ central government |
| Edo | the capital city of Tokugawa Japan; today it is known as Tokyo |
| samurai | Japanese warriors who primarily used the samurai sword in battle |
| barter economy | based on the trade of goods, not money |
| Mongols | invaded China from the north; their rulers lived well in China while the Chinese starved |
| missionaries | came to Japan to convert people to Christianity; they were eventually kicked out of the country |
| suspicion | one reason why the Chinese did not allow many foreigners in the country |
| superior | many Chinese thought their country was ___ to others |
| civil service system | a key part of the government of China |
| Portuguese | the only Europeans allowed to trade with China |
| guns | the Japanese took a long time to begin using this European weapon |
| merchants | they gained the most from Japan's change to a money economy |
| rice | a new form ended hunger and increased food production in China |
| Tokugawa shoguns | they united Japan by defeating the daimyos |
