Absolutism + Tokugawa Shogunate

Question 1

What saying described his absolute power?

Accepted Answer

L'etat c'est moi

Question 2

What were the top four groups of the social structure in descending order?

Accepted Answer

Emperor, Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai

Question 3

Who did the Japanese begin trading with in 1543?

Accepted Answer

Portuguese

Question 4

Which of the following are characteristics of absolute rule?

Accepted Answer

Close control of social groups, Absence of opposing political parties, Divine Right

Question 5

Which of the following were documents that limited the British Crown?

Accepted Answer

Petition of Right, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights

Question 6

Which of the following countries is about 120 miles from Japan?

Accepted Answer

Korea

Question 7

Where did he move to?

Accepted Answer

Versailles

Question 8

What is a decentralized political system that promoted social stability?

Accepted Answer

Feudalism

Question 9

In what system were Daimyo controlled by alternating years living in the capital?

Accepted Answer

Sankin Kotai

Question 10

Who wrote Politics Drawn From The Very Words Of Holy Scripture?

Accepted Answer

Bishop Jacques Bosseut

Question 11

Which of the following were ways he did so?

Accepted Answer

Trim beards, Cut sleeves, Improve ship building

Question 12

a political system in which there is no legal, moral, or customary limit on the government’s power

Accepted Answer

Absolutism

Question 13

Whose goal was to westernize Russia?

Accepted Answer

Peter the Great

Question 14

What is the way of the warrior?

Accepted Answer

Bushido

Question 15

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Accepted Answer

Miguel Cervantes

Question 16

What influenced Japanese beliefs to focus on nature?

Accepted Answer

Impact of Geography

Question 17

What percent of Japan is mountainous?

Accepted Answer

80-ish %

Question 18

Name the Paris uprising that scared Louis XIV:

Accepted Answer

The Fronde

Question 19

What phrase describes that concept?

Accepted Answer

The ends justifies the means.

Question 20

Who believed that a ruler could lie, cheat and steal to maintain power?

Accepted Answer

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 21

What closed off Japan to foreign trade and travel?

Accepted Answer

Closed Country Edict of 1635

Question 22

As part of this, Japan is subject to earthquakes and volcanic activity:

Accepted Answer

Pacific Ring of Fire

Question 23

Which of the following are Japanese Islands?

Accepted Answer

Kyushu, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku

Question 24

What items were used to convince Amaterasu to come out of the cave?

Accepted Answer

A play, a mirror, and roosters

Question 25

What is the land of the rising sun?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 26

Which is the Stuart Dynasty in chronological order?

Accepted Answer

James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II

Question 27

Who were the two creator Gods in Japanese mythology?

Accepted Answer

Izanami and Izanagi

Question 28

What was the window to the west?

Accepted Answer

St. Petersburg

Question 29

Who wrote Leviathan?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Question 30

What two Greek philosophers supported absolute rule?

Accepted Answer

Plato and Aristotle

Question 31

What are divine spirits found in beautiful things?

Accepted Answer

kami

Question 32

Who unified Spain and sponsored Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 33

Who led a movement against the traditional Japanese way of life?

Accepted Answer

Christians

Question 34

Who defeated his rivals and moved his capital to Edo?

Accepted Answer

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Question 35

What was exchanged in a feudal society?

Accepted Answer

Land for service and loyalty

Question 36

This means the Way of the Gods:

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 37

Who had El Escorial built ?

Accepted Answer

Phillip II

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