How Did Japan Change Under The Tokugawa Shogunate

How did Japan’s relationship with Europeans change under the Tokugawa Shogunate? A: Many European powers had dual motives foe exploring the new world. All were interested in commerce or conquest that would bring them wealth and power, and most wanted to use their global influence to convert, what they saw as, heathen nations to their version of Christianity. Prior to Tokugawa rule, Europeans had been able to successfully trade and proselytize in Japan, and communities of converted Japanese came to exist. The Tokugawa Shoguns not kindly disposed toward a foreign religion growing in Japan. A Christian-Japanese revolt was enough for them to ban the religion and close their borders to all Europeans except for the Dutch, who appeared to have little interest in spreading their form of Christianity. Although the Tokugawas had decided to isolate themselves from most of Europe, they continued to maintain foreign relations with the Chinese, Koreans, and Dutch. Japanese ships continued to conduct commerce and piracy even though there was a point when Japanese were forbidden to contact the outside world. In fact, the relationship between the Dutch and Japanese became stronger, and “Dutch learning,” the study of European science and Dutch culture was pursued by the Japanese. The Japanese remained
The decline began when its advance into Europe was halted at the gates of Vienna by a coalition of European powers in 1683. The decline continued as European trade routes by sea outcompeted the old Muslim land routes, depriving the empire of important revenues. In fact, territorial expansion had reversed by 1696, when the Russians took the Turkish city of Azov. The unmistakable superiority of the Europeans served as a wake-up call to the Ottomans that they needed to advance and adapt in order to survive. Their decline and fall was not preventable, but it was mitigated and