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- What new crops did farmers grow?
- corn and sweet potatoes brought by the Europeans from the Americas
- What did Koreans organize their government according to?
- Confucian principles
- Females were not what?
- valued and many female infants were killed as a result
- Most Chinese families did what?
- farmed the land
- What did dramas do?
- entertain people and helped unify Chinese society by creating a kind of national culture
- What did the women do?
- work in the fields, supervise the childrens' education, and manage the family's finance
- What was a popular entertainment?
- dramas, especially in rural China, where literacy rates were low
- Only the son was allowed to do what?
- carry on vital religious rituals
- The Manchu invasion, combined with a Japanese attack in the 1590s did what?
- Provoked strong feelings of nationalism in the Korean people
- What did Korea adopt?
- China's technology, its culture, and especially its policy of isolation
- What did the Chinese population reach to and when?
- 300 million by 1800
- Who did Chinese families favor?
- sons over daughters
- With increased food production, what increased?
- nutrition and diet
- How many women participated in foot-binding?
- one half to two-thirds of all chinese women
- What did the Manchus do nearby Korea? When?
- they conquered nearby Korea and made it a vassal state before they came to power in China in 1636
- What as Dream of the Red Chamber?
- it examines upper-class Manchu society in the 1700s and has been praised for the sensitive portrayal of its female characters
- When was the Ming Dynasty from?
- 1368-1644
- What did Cao Zhan write?
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- What provoked strong feelings of nationalism in the Korean people?
- The Manchu invasion, combined with a Japanese attack in the 1590s
- Under who, what did Korea become?
- The Manchus, China's little brother
- The practice of foot-binding continued until?
- into the 20th century