1. Do-now
Why did China refer to itself as the Middle Kingdom?

2. Encounters in East Asia

3. The Ming
Stopped all overseas exploration after Zheng He

4. Europeans want to trade with China
China looks down upon the Europeans

5. European goods
The Chinese don’t want anything from the Europeans

6. Trade
The Chinese allow some trade but will only accept gold or silver for their goods

7. Canton
The Europeans were only allowed to trade at one port, Canton

8. Chinese population
With new food crops from America such as the potato & corn the population increases from 140 million in 1740 to 300 million in 1800

9. Chinese goods
European demand for Chinese goods booms

11. JAPAN

12. Allows Europeans to trade
At first Japan welcomes the Europeans

13. Tokugawa Shogun
Began to distrust the Europeans after Spain took control of the Philippines
Believe the Japanese Catholics will follow the Pope rather than the Emperor

14. Japan shuts Europeans out
Kills all Japanese Catholics and Europeans living in Japan
No European is allowed to enter Japan
Any Japanese person to leave Japan is not allowed back in

15. Dutch
The Shogun did allow one Dutch ship to trade with the Japanese once a year at Nagasaki
The Shogun allowed the ship so he could find out what was going on in the rest of the world

16. Japan remains isolated until the United States demands that Japan open itself to trade in 1853