Crash Course Quiz: Samurai, Daimyo, Perry + Nationalism

This leader unified Germany in the 1871

• Otto von Bismarck

• Mustafa Kemal

• Garibaldi

• Muhammad Ali

All of the following could be used to describe a modern nation-state, except:

• It involves a centralized government

• Its government can claim and exercise authority over a distinctive territory

• an outlook that promotes and respects other cultures and customs

• It involves a certain degree of language and cultural sameness

All of the following are mentioned as ways that nationalism is constructed by governments, except:

• building a sense of patriotism through compulsory military service

• its an organic process involving culturally-similar people wanting to formalize their connections

• building a sense of patriotism through statues of national heroes

• Public education that share nationalizing narratives

True or False: nationalism was often a stablizing force for multiethnic land-based empires (ie the Ottoman Empire)

• True

• False

Which family was able to seize power of feudal Japan in 1603 and form a military government (aka a bakufu)?

• the Meiji family

• the Tokugawa

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• the Mitsubishi family

• the Shogun family

In 1603, Ieyasu Tokugawa convinced the emperor, who was something of a figurehead, to grant him the title of _______ (aka a military dictator).

• emperor

• daimyo

• shogun

• samurai

How would you describe the political situation in Japan, before the Tokugawa Shogunate was able to take power

• dictatorial

• centralized

• authoritarian

• decentralized

The Tokugawa shogunate's primary virtue as a government was its ______

• stability

• forward-thinking policies

• efficiency

• instability

What political policy is the Tokugawa Shogunate most famous for during its 260 year rule (1603-1868)

• its policy of rapid industrialization and militarization

• its policy of religious tolerance

• its friendly policy towards foreigners

• Its isolationist policy

Who forced the Japanese to open their doors and sign some humiliating trade treaties?

• The Tokugawa Shogunate

• The American navy with its steam powered ships

• The Chinese who were victorious against the British in the Opium war

• The French navy with its steam powered ships