Reading #1: Pages 546-550 (Red Book)
East Asian World
Ming Dynasty in China (1369 - 1644): China at its Height: The Greatness of the Qing
Essential Questions:
1. Describe three achievements of the Ming. (Make note of government success.)
2. Describe the Ming relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note of
which European country was involved.)
3. Explain three reasons why the Ming fell from power.
Reading #1: Graphic Organizer #1: China At Its Height (pp. 547 - 549)
Topic: When Europeans arrived by sea, China was a huge, strong, and closed empire
1. Describe three achievements of the Ming. (Make note of government success.)
2. Describe the Ming relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note of
which European country was involved.)
Intro Section
Attitude Toward
Europeans
Book Heading: From Ming to Qing
Achievements of the
Dealings
Dealings with
Ming (Home & Abroad)
with traders
missionaries
1. Describe three achievements of the Ming. (Make note of government success.)
1.
2.
3. Government Success:
2. Describe the Ming relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note of
which European country was involved.)
1. Traders:
2. Missionaries:
3. Country or Countries:
Reading #1: Graphic Organizer #2: Fall of the Ming (pp. 549-550)
Topic: Why the Ming Fell From Power
3. Explain three reasons why the Ming fell from power.
Economic Problems
Northern Frontier
3. Explain three reasons why the Ming fell from power.
1.
2.
3.
Epidemic & Rebellion
Reading #2: Pages 550 - 555 (Red Book)
East Asian World
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty in China (1661 - 1911)
Essential Questions:
1. Explain two factors that allowed the Manchus (Qing) to rise to power.
2. Describe three achievements of the Qing under the leadership of Kangxi & Qianlong.
3. Describe the Qing relationship with European missionaries. (Make note of which European
country was involved.)
4. Explain how the Qing government was able to maintain control of China.
5. Explain three reasons why the Qing fell from power. (Make note of how European nations
contributed to this decline.)
Reading #2: Graphic Organizer #1:
Greatness of the Qing (pp. 550 - 553)
Topic: Manchus maintain control under leadership of two outstanding rulers
1. Explain two factors that allowed the Manchus (Qing) to rise to power.
2. Describe the Ming relationship with European missionaries. (Make note of which
European country was involved.)
3. Describe three achievements of the Qing under the leadership of Kangxi & Qianlong.
Two Prominent Rulers & the Europeans
Manchus take control
Kangxi
Europeans
Reading #2 is continued on the next page.
Qianlong
1. Explain two factors that allowed the Manchus (Qing) to rise to power.
1.
2.
2. Describe the Ming relationship with European missionaries. (Make note of which European
country was involved.)
Relationship:
Country or Countries:
2. Describe three achievements of the Qing under the leadership of Kangxi & Qianlong.
1.
2.
3.
Reading #2 is continued on the next page.
Reading #2: Graphic Organizer #2: Qing Political Institutions & China on
the Eve of Western Onslaught (pp. 553 - 556)
Topic: Manchus maintain control of the Empire despite begin a minority
3. Describe the Qing relationship with European traders. (Make note of which European
country was involved.)
4. Explain how the Qing government was able to maintain control of China.
5. Explain three reasons why the Qing fell from power. (Make note of how European nations
contributed to this decline.)
Qing Political Institutions
China on the Eve of Western Onslaught
Dyarchy - raising
Manchu
Chinese to high Corruption Russian Traders English Traders
Separation
positions
Complete the Summary Sentences on the Following Page.
3. Describe the Qing relationship with European traders. (Make note of which European country
was involved.)
Relations:
Country or Countries:
4. Explain two ways the Qing government was able to maintain control of China.
1.
2.
5. Explain three reasons why the Qing fell from power. (Make note of how European nations
contributed to this decline.)
1.
2.
3.
Reading #3: Pages 556-564 (Red Book)
East Asian World
Changing China: Society and Culture
Essential Questions:
1. Describe two ways Chinese society was changing during the Qing dynasty.
2. Explain how women were treated in Chinese society (Role of Women during Ming and Qing)
3. Describe two similarities as well as two differences of the artistic achievements (including
literature) of the Ming and the Qing.
Reading #3: Economic Changes & Daily Life (pp. 557 - 561)
Topic: Population Growth and manufacturing change Chinese society
1. Describe two ways Chinese society was changing during the Qing dynasty.
2. Explain how women were treated in Chinese society (Role of Women during Ming and Qing)
Economic Changes
Population Growth
Manufacturing &
Trade
Daily Life in Qing China
Large Extended
Family Structure
Oppression of
Women
1. Describe two ways Chinese society was changing during the Qing dynasty.
1.
2.
2. Explain how women were treated in Chinese society (Role of Women during Ming and Qing)
Reading #3: Graphic Organizer #2: Cultural Changes (561 – 564)
Topic: Growing middle class creates art & literature that focuses on everyday people
3. Describe two similarities as well as two differences of the artistic achievements (including
literature) of the Ming and the Qing.
Chinese Novels
Golden Lotus
Dream of the Red
Chamber
Art of Ming and Qing
Forbidden City
Decorative Arts
3. Describe two similarities as well as two differences of the artistic achievements (including
literature) of the Ming and the Qing.
1. Similarity #1
2. Similarity #2
3. Difference #1
4. Difference #2
Reading #4: Pages 564 - 570 (Red Book)
East Asian World
Tokugawa Japan (1603 - 1868)
Essential Questions:
1. Explain two ways how the three great unifiers were able to unify Japan.
2. Describe the Tokugawa relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note of
which European country was involved.)
3. Describe two ways Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa dynasty.
4. Describe how women were treated in Tokugawa Japan. (Role of Women in Tokugawa)
Reading #4: Graphic Organizer #1: The Three Great Unifiers (pp. 564-565)
Topic: Three Warrior Leaders Unify Japan by Force
1. Explain two ways how the three great unifiers were able to unify Japan.
Nobunaga
Hideyoshi
1. Explain two ways how the three great unifiers were able to unify Japan.
1.
2.
Tokugawa
Reading #4: Graphic Organizer #2: Opening to the West (pp. 565-566)
Topic: When Western explorers, traders & missionaries influence people,
Japanese leaders react by closing Japan to outsiders
2. Describe the Tokugawa relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note
of which European country was involved.)
Technology & trade
goods
Christian Missionaries
Closing the country
2. Describe the Tokugawa relationship with European traders and missionaries. (Make note of
which European country was involved.)
Traders:
Missionaries:
Reading #4: Graphic Organizer #3
The Tokugawa “Great Peace” (pp. 566 - 570)
Topic: Strong central control changes the economy and the strict class structure
3. Describe two ways Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa dynasty.
4. Describe how women were treated in Tokugawa Japan. (Role of Women in Tokugawa)
No Heading
Shogun controls
Daimyo lords
Economic Changes
Rise of
Fall of
merchant
Samurai
Peasants
class
class
Class system & women
Five main
classes
Complete the summary sentences on the following page.
Restrictions
on women
3. Describe two ways Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa dynasty.
1.
2.
4. Describe how women were treated in Tokugawa Japan. (Role of Women in Tokugawa)
Reading #5: Pages 570 - 572 (Red Book)
East Asian World
Essential Questions:
1. Describe three artistic accomplishments of the Tokugawa.
2. Explain two ways Chinese and Japanese relations with Europeans was similar.
Reading #5: Graphic Organizer #1: Tokugawa Culture (pp. 570 - 572)
Topic: The rise of the middle class changes literature and promotes decorative arts
1. Describe three artistic accomplishments of the Tokugawa.
Literature of the New Middle Class
Tokugawa art
Novels tell
Kabuki theatre Poetry - Haiku Building &
Gold foil and
middle class
gets restricted
decoration
extravagance
stories
1. Describe three artistic accomplishments of the Tokugawa.
1.
2.
3.
Reading #5: Graphic Organizer #2: Conclusion (pp. 573)
Topic: China and Japan’s precarious relationship with Europeans
2. Explain two ways Chinese and Japanese relations with Europeans were similar.
Welcoming merchants &
missionaries
“Closed Country” policy
Aggressive Europeans
2. Explain two ways Chinese and Japanese relations with Europeans were similar.
1.
2.