Week 2

Lecture/Seminar: Creation of the Manchu Empire

• READ: Chapter 16 – The Creation of the Manchu Empire (1600 – 1800) to answer DQ #1.

• DQ #1 is Due.
• Summary #1: China and the Eighteenth-Century World is Due
• Summary #2: Tom Standage, “Empires of Tea” in A History of the World in Six Glasses. is Due.

DQ #1

Who were the Manchus?  How did their history as “outsiders” shape the way they ruled China? What made the Qing Dynasty strong?  What were some of its accomplishments? How did it seek to regulate its relations with countries beyond its borders”?

Early Modern Asia

Manchu Empire