261. Analects of Confucius - Answers classic Chinese text that explain the philosopher Confucius and
his ideas
262. Bakufu - Answers tent government that ruled Japan along with the shogun
263. Bunraku - Answers Japanese puppet theater
264. Civil Service Examination - Answers tests given by each district, provincial, and metropolitan
level that determined entry into the Chinese civil service
265. Complete Library of the Four Treasuries - Answers 3,000 years of Chinese knowledge; Siku
Quanshu
266. Daimyo - Answers alternate attendance; forced to spend every year at court; powerful territorial
lords in early modern Japan
267. Dutch Learning - Answers presented at Nagasaki that helped Japan get a better understanding of
the world through European science, medicine and art
268. Eunuch - Answers castrated males who grew to play major roles in government; loyal to China
because they can't start families
269. Filial piety - Answers children's duty to the parent; individual to the emperor
270. Foot binding - Answers a little girl's feet are bind through linen strips as they are percieved as a
statement of social status; enhance marriage prospects
272. Francis Xavier - Answers Jesuits that went to Japan
273. Great Wall - Answers created during Qin dynasty and was rebuilt during the Ming rule; long walk
with guard towers, housing soldiers
274. Hongwu - Answers founded the Ming Dynasty
275. Kabuki - Answers theater of men playing women's roles
276. Manchu - Answers Manchurian who conquered China, put end to Ming dynasty and help found
the Qing dynasty
277. Matteo Ricci - Answers when Jesuits came and attempted to convert Ming emperor Wanli;
master Chinese before visiting; brought western mechanical technology such as the clock
278. Neo-Confucianism - Answers Confucian morality with Buddhist logic by Zhu Xi; sometimes
argued with Christianity thought; was also in Japanese folk tradition
279. Nurhaci - Answers Chieftain Nurhaci helped unified the tribes in Manchus who were originally
pastoral nomads into state which developed in to the Qing dynasty; helped found the Qing dynasty
280. Qianlong - Answers wrote poetry about the Golden age of China which was the Tang dynasty;
helped restore Chinese cultural heritage during the Qing dynasty
281. Qing dynasty - Answers "pure" dynasty from 1644-1911; Chinese last dynasty that unified from
tribes from Manchus that were originally pastoral nomads
282. Sengoku - Answers "country at war" civil war in Japan during the 16th century
283. Shogun - Answers Japanese military leader who ruled in place of emperor
284. Son of Heaven - Answers Chinese emperor during the Ming and Qing dynasty considered qausi
or semi divine
285. Tokugawa Ieyasu - Answers founder of the first shogunate in Tokugawa Japan with the bakufu
and established of the Tokugawa dynasty
286. Ukiyo - Answers entertainment and pleasure industries
287. Wanli - Answers Emperor of Ming Dynasty when it declined with abandonment of imperial
activity and led to famine in the dynasty
288. Yongle Encyclopedia - Answers Emperor Yongle commissioned 23,000 roles of the encyclopedia
that promoted for Chinese traditions and rid off Mongol rule