Study Sheet for February 21th and March 14th Lectures / S. Esenbel

l. Zheng He Expeditions

Zheng He as a Chinese Muslim Eunuch

Yung Lo Emperor



Silk Road and Arab Sea Trade

Mongol World Empire and globalization

Marco Polo Journey to China

Ibn Batuta Journey to Asia



Historical Significance of the Chinese Expeditions Compared with the Age of Discovery by Europeans


2. Ming Chinese Bureaucracy and Tokugawa Centralized Feudalism

Voltaire and the Enlightenment View of Chinese Bureaucratic Empire

Ming Bureaucracy

State Examinations

Autocracy of the Ming Emperor

Tokugawa Centralized Feudalism

Shoguns and the Bakufu government

Local autonomy of Domains