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AP Success - AP World History: Japan as a Maritime Power

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"As I consider all the other people of the Orient as they exist today, I feel convinced that there is no other nation which has the ability or the courage to navigate a steamship across the Pacific after a period of five years of experience in navigation and engineering. Not only in the Orient would this feat stand as an act of unprecedented skill and daring. Even Peter the Great of Russia, who went to Holland to study navigation, with all his attainments in the science could not have equaled this feat of the Japanese. Without doubt, the famous Emperor of Russia was a man of exceptional genius, but his people did not respond to his leadership in the practice of Science as did our Japanese in this great adventure. "

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1897

Question 1

Multiple choice

According to Yukichi Fukuzawa's account, what distinguishes Japan from other nations in the Orient during the late 19th century?

Question 2

Multiple choice

Fukuzawa's comparison of Japanese achievements in navigation to those of Peter the Great suggests what about Japanese society at the time?

Question 3

Multiple choice

The 'great adventure' referred to by Fukuzawa most likely symbolizes which of the following in the context of late 19th-century Japan?

Question 4

Multiple choice

What can be inferred about Fukuzawa's perspective on Japan's place in the world?

Question 5

Multiple choice

The excerpt from The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa is an example of which of the following historical processes in the 19th century?

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