#6 East Asia

#6 Performance Standards & Specifications:

Describe and analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious and social structures of the civilizations of east Asia

1. What is John’s definition of the modern nation-state?

2. How is public education often seen as part of a nationalizing project?

3. What are some examples of conflicts that gave way to emerging nations?

4. Beginning in 1603 and lasting over 250 years, what was the main government of Japan and what did it offer?

5. What warrior class was an odd feature of the Tokugawa era?

6. What two foreign forced rocked Japan and contributed

to the crumbling of the Tokugawa control in Japan?

7. What steps did a newly-throned Emperor Meiji and his leadership implement in order to unify Japan?

8. How did competition with the west modernize Japan?

1. How did China’s 1911 revolution begin?

2. What happened upon Yuan Shikai’s death in 1916?

3. What is the period in Chinese history between 1912 and 1949 sometimes called and who are the main parties involved?

4. The rectification program was initiated by Mao in 1942. What was its purpose?

5. What occurred on October 1, 1949?

6. Beginning in October 1950, the People’s Republic of China, under Mao,

launched a number of campaigns aimed at bolstering party support.

What were some of the results of these campaigns?

7. Between 1959 and 1962, about how many people died as a result of food scarcity?

8. What was the Cultural Revolution?