World History › Section O · Asian and African trade worlds › Topic O.3
Exchange in East Asia: Ming, Qing, and Japan
Between about 1500 and 1800, East Asia was drawn into a global trade in silver, silk and porcelain, and European ships and missionaries arrived on its coasts. China and Japan welcomed the trade but tried hard to control the people and ideas that came with it.
In this topic
- Trade on East Asia's terms
- From sea ban to open ports
- A silver age
- Worked example: following the silver
- The fall of the Ming
- Qing China expands
- The Qing and the Europeans
- Japan's unifiers and the Europeans
- The Tokugawa order
- Worked example: was Japan really closed?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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