Question: Who worked towards obtaining a extension of relations with Tibet?
Answer: the Yongle Emperor

Question: What years did the Qing dynasty rule?
Answer: 1644–1912

Question: what year was the history of Ming produced? 
Answer: 1739

Question: What did the Ming dynasty create?
Answer: É-Lì-Sī Army-Civilian Marshal Office

Question: How many Qianhu offices were there?
Answer: seventeen Qianhu offices

Question: where was the É-Lì-Sī Army-Civilian Marshal Office established?
Answer: western Tibet

Question: How many princes of Dharma were assigned by the Ming court?
Answer: three

Question: Who established the Tibetan law code?
Answer: Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen

Question: Who was the Phagmodru ruler?
Answer: Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen

Question: who was a professor of the University of Washington?
Answer: Turrell V. Wylie

Question: Who had a large amount of contacts with china during Yuan?
Answer: Tibet

Question: Who believed that Tibet barely had any diplomatic relations with the Ming?
Answer: Morris Rossabi

Question: Who supported van Praag's beliefs? 
Answer: historian Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa

Question: Who did not agree with van Praag and Shakabpa?
Answer: Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain

Question: Who believed that the Ming court had full sovereignty over Tibet?
Answer: Wang and Nyima

Question: What year did Wang and Nyima believe that the Mongol Prince Punala went to Nanjing?
Answer: 1371

Question: What did the lamas called themselves?
Answer: princes

Question: What edicts did the Ming issue?
Answer: imperial edicts

Question: Who wrote the book The Story of Tibet?
Answer: Journalist and author Thomas Laird

Question: who colonized India and New Zealand?
Answer: the British

Question: Who's viewpoint does Thomas Laird believe Wang and Nyima present?
Answer: the government viewpoint of the People's Republic of China

Question: How did the The Columbia Encyclopedia describe the Yuan dynasty?
Answer: A Mongol dynasty of China

Question: How did the Encyclopedia Americana describe the Yuan Dynasty?
Answer: the line of Mongol rulers in China

Question: What did Thomas Laird dismiss the Yuan dynasty as?
Answer: a non-Chinese polity

Question: Who wrote the book Khubilai Khan?
Answer: Rossabi

Question: When did the yuan dynasty start and end?
Answer: 1271 to 1368

Question: When did Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan reign?
Answer: 1311–1320

Question: During the Yuan what existed between China and Tibet? 
Answer: a licensed border market

Question: Who was granted higher status than the Han Chinese majority?
Answer: the Mongols and other ethnicities

Question: Who abolished the policy council?
Answer: the Ming

Question: What was the Tibetan leader  Choskunskyabs  appointed as? 
Answer: the General of the Ngari Military and Civil Wanhu Office

Question: Who governed most areas of Tibet?
Answer: Ming dynasty's Ü-Tsang Commanding Office

Question: Where is the China Tibetology Research Center located?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Who was the Director of the History Studies Institute?
Answer: Chen Qingying

Question: How many households were the offices of Qianhu in charge of?
Answer: 1,000 households

Question: How many households were the offices of Wanhu in charge of?
Answer: 10,000 households

Question: What was the name of the Tibetologist?
Answer: John Powers

Question: Who did the Ming emperors send invitations to?
Answer: ruling lamas

Question: When the lamas received an invite from the emperors, who did they send instead? 
Answer: subordinates

Question: What was the western regions composed of?
Answer: the Tarim Basin and oasis of Turpan

Question: Who believed that they were the true Han Western representatives? 
Answer: foreign officials

Question: What title was given by the Yuan court to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen ?
Answer: Education Minister

Question: What Tibetan title was hardly ever mentioned when referring to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen?
Answer: Degsi

Question: What dynasty kept a Central-local government relation with the Yuan imperial court?
Answer: Phagmodrupa Dynasty

Question: What two people claim the title of Education Minister was often seen next to Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen's name in Tibetan texts?
Answer: Wang and Nyima

Question: Who wrote in their will that they received loving care from the emperor in the east?
Answer: The Tai Situpa

Question: Who divided Central Tibet into districts? 
Answer: Changchub Gyaltsen

Question: Who strongly believed Changchub Gyaltsen wanted to restore the glories of its Imperial age to Tibet?
Answer: Van Praag

Question: What university was Lok-Ham Chan a professor at?
Answer: the University of Washington

Question: What did Lok-Ham Chan claim  Changchub Gyaltsen wanted to remove?
Answer: all traces of Mongol suzerainty

Question: Who did the Hongwu Emperor grant the title Initiation State Master to?
Answer: Sagya Gyaincain

Question: Who suggested to the emperor that an official title be granted to second Phagmodru ruler?
Answer: the Ming officer of Hezhou

Question: Who was the second Phagmodru ruler?
Answer: Jamyang Shakya Gyaltsen

Question: Who told the emperor that the situation in Dbus and Gtsang were under control?
Answer: the Ming officer of Hezhou

Question: Where were the envoys sent?
Answer: to the Ming court

Question: Who lost their power over Tibet?
Answer: the Phagmodrupa

Question: What year did the Phagmodrupa lose their power over Tibet?
Answer: 1434

Question: What year did the 5th Dalai lama start to dominate over Tibet?
Answer: 1642

Question: What did the other families fail to establish?
Answer: hegemonies

Question: The Ming Dynasty granted what titles to lamas of schools?
Answer: the Karmapa Kargyu

Question: Who did the Ming Dynasty decline titles from after receiving invitations?
Answer: Mongol

Question: Who was the founder of the Gelug school?
Answer: Je Tsongkhapa

Question: Who invited Je Tsongkhapa to come pay tribute?
Answer: the Ming Yongle Emperor

Question: Who wrote the letter declining the Emperor's invitation?
Answer: Tsongkhapa

Question: When did the Ming first request Tsongkhapa to come to court?
Answer: 1407

Question: When did the Ming court send a second request to Tsongkhapa?
Answer: 1413

Question: Who did Tsongkhapa send in his place to Nanjing?
Answer: his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes

Question: When was Chosrje Shākya Yeshes sent to Nanjing?
Answer: 1414

Question: Who believed the Ming reappointed old Yuan dynasty officials in Tibet?
Answer: Dawa Norbu

Question: Who did the Ming appoint titles to?
Answer: eastern Tibetan princes

Question: What didn't the Ming send to replace the Mongols when they left Tibet?
Answer: an army

Question: What does Yiu Yung-chin claim the Ming did not possess?
Answer: Tibet

Question: What was the name of the  eunuch?
Answer: Yang Sanbao

Question: Where did the Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao?
Answer: Tibet

Question: When did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet?
Answer: 1413

Question: Why did Yongle Emperor send Yang Sanbao into Tibet?
Answer: the allegiance of various Tibetan princes

Question: Why did the emperor pay a small fortune in gifts?
Answer: to maintain the loyalty of neighboring vassal states

Question: Who did the Gelug exchange gifts with?
Answer: the Ming court

Question: Until what year frame did the Gelug exchange gifts with the the Ming?
Answer: 1430s

Question: What was the Gelug not mentioned in?
Answer: the Mingshi or the Mingshi Lu

Question: Regardless of their sectarian affiliations, who did the Ming grant titles to?
Answer: various lamas

Question: Who was the viceregal Sakya regime overthrown by?
Answer: the Phagmodru myriarchy

Question: Who believed that the Ming had no real authority over Tibet?
Answer: Melvyn C. Goldstein

Question: What years did the Rinpungpa regime start and end?
Answer: 1435–1565

Question: Who believed that the titles given to Tibetan leaders did not confer authority?
Answer: Melvyn C. Goldstein