Asia: Japan, China, & India1300-1800

Japan• Kyoto was the ancient capitol

• Feudalism–Emperor–Shogun–Daimyo–Samurai–Peasants

• The “connection” …Japan’s Secret Empire

Emperor Shogun

Daimyo

Daimyo

Daimyo

Daimyo

Daimyo

Samurai

Samurai

Samurai

Samurai

Samurai

SamuraiSamurai

Shoguns and Samurai• The Samurai• 1467-1568 Age of the

Warring States• Rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu in

1603 he wins• Battle of Sekigahara• Head Shogun, works for

unity and stability … Tokugawa Shogunate for 200 years…

• 1612-14 began to evict Christian missionaries.

• 200 years of isolationism.

China• Secrets of the First Emperor…Qin is Ying Zheng who starts construction on the Great Wall and builds the Terra Cotta Army

• Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)– Military power

• Yongle Emperor rebuilds Wall and Forbidden City.

• Zheng Hu , 2/5 , 3/5 , 4/5 , 5/5

Trade and Europeans• 1514 Portuguese• 1522 expelled from

China• 1557 Macao• Manila – Spanish• Japan plunders, piracy • By 1640s Ming dynasty

fails due to eco., war, famine, weather…

• Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)

India • Vasco da Gama 1497-98 commercial contacts Calicut

• D’Albuquerque in 1509 named Viceroy of the East

• Mughal Muslims…Akbar the Great

• Protestant reformation in full swing by mid-1500s so Philip II of Spain AND Portugal stops trade with Dutch and English

• Armada defeat in 1588 opens door to India

• British East India Co. (1600)• Dutch East India Co (1602)• French East India Co (1664).

• Calicut 1750s

Jewel of the Crown• 1680 + Fr vs.

G. Brit.• Fight for Ind

ia 1746…

• French in Pondichery

• British in Madras

• Battle of Plassey 1757

• 1763