1. Chapter 14.4 Encounters w/ East Asia
Portuguese reach China from Malacca in 1514.
Chinese see them (all foreigners) as barbarians.
Portuguese are impressed w/ China.

2. Describe 2 examples of good news in your life recently.
Focus Q: Jan. 21
Describe 2 examples of good news in your life recently.

3. What you’ll learn……..
Why………….
Some Chinese limit trade w/ Europeans.
Korea will isolate itself.
Japanese attitudes about trade change over time.
What is the potential cost to opening your borders to trade?
NAFTA?
What is the big deal w/trade anyway?

4. Europeans in Ming China
Portuguese want Chinese silks, porcelain
Chinese demand pymt in gold or silver b/c
***Chinese didn’t want inferior
European goods***

6. Europeans in Ming China
Chinese allow Portuguese limited access to Macao to trade
Later the Dutch, English and others too, BUT
***Ming limited trade: foreign traders had to leave at
end of trading season***

8. Seeking Converts
missionaries, esp. Jesuits try to convert Chinese to Christianity
Little success
But are great sources of info on the Chinese for Europeans
Matteo Ricci

9. Manchu (Qing) Conquest
1600s—Ming Dynasty decaying
From the NE—Manchuria—come Manchus
1644—seize Beijing—make it their capital
***to rule effectively, Manchu (Qing)
adopt Confucian system of govt***

10. Russia

12. A Little Hmmmph…..
Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A Candle
Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It’s Mary!

13. Economy Under Qing (Manchu)
1. ***Chinese economy expands under Qing: Farm output increases, Chinese industries expand***
Farmers get potatoes, corn from Americas
Much demand for Chinese silk, porcelain, cotton goods

14. Korea Chooses Isolation
Before 1500s, Korean traders went from Japan to the Mediterranean
1592, 1597 Japan attacks—driven out by 1598
Disastrous for Koreans
Villages burned, famine and disease were common, population declines, then……..
Manchus (Qing) attack….make Korea a tributary state—rule themselves, acknowledge Chinese supremacy

16. Korea Chooses Isolation
***b/c of the Japanese, Chinese invasions—Koreans adopt a policy of isolation, excluding foreigners***

17. Foreign Traders in Japan
***Unlike Chinese, Koreans—Japanese, at 1st, welcome foreign traders from the west***
1543 Portuguese, later Spanish, Dutch, English
Jesuits convert some Japanese
Firearms, printing press are welcomed

18. Foreign Traders in Japan
***Japanese Shoguns grow more hostile to foreigners
Esp. after Spain takes over the Philippines***

19. Foreign Traders in Japan
Shoguns maybe threatened by 300 K Japanese Christians
Expel foreign missionaries
Kill 1000s of Japanese Christians
Japan becomes isolated
Expel foreign merchants
Forbid Japanese to travel abroad
Outlaw building large ships (remember?)

20. Left side—test review
Using the following terms, list an important fact and draw a picture or make a simile. Boers Balboa Ming China Qing Dynasty Korea Japan/Shoguns Moluccas Asante Kingdom Columbus