Possible Paragraph Essay Topics

1. Describe the role of women in Chinese society between 1500 and 1800.
2. Describe the effects of economic changes in the Tokugawa Era on Japanese peasants.
3. Describe the role of women in Tokugawa society.
4. Explain why the kind of commercial capitalism that was emerging in Europe did not develop in China.
5. Describe the makeup of the Chinese family during the Qing Dynasty.
6. How did the shogun exact loyalty from the daimyo?
7. How did the Qing government solve the problem of being ethnically and culturally different from the people they governed?
8. What was the Chinese view of Europeans, and how did interactions with Europeans impact Chinese society?
9. Explain how the samurai gradually ceased to be a warrior class.
10. How did the completion of the Great Canal impact China?
11. What was the Chinese attitude toward European products?
12. Why did Toyotomi Hiegyoshi turn against the Jesuit missionaries?
13. Why was Edo an important city to the Tokugawa rulers?
    
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