Growing Mercantilism Undermines the Four-Tier System: During the Tokugawa era‚ the samurai class lost power. It was an era of peace‚ so thesamurai warriors’ skills were not needed. Gradually they transformed into either bureaucrats or wandering troublemakers‚ as personality and luck dictated. Even then‚ however‚ samurai
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made Japan unique. The overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate had restored the emperor to primacy in Japan. He now stood as the wellspring of political power and legitimacy. Although not a political decision maker‚ and perhaps because of this‚ the emperor stood as a unifying symbol‚ a common foundation for further changes by the oligarchy. The foremost concern of the new government was ridding the country of the remains of despotic shogunate rule and establishing a system that could adapt
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foreign trade play in the economy of the Qing Empire? 4. How and why did Peter the Great’s attitude toward the west differ from that of Kangxi? 5. Both the Qing and the Tokugawa governments were in decline by 1800. What reasons lay behind the decline of each government? 6. How did the political structure of the Tokugawa Shogunate influence the economic development of
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STUDY GUIDE: AP WORLD SEMESTER 1 52 points- 2 points apiece for summarizing each of the following: (Complete sentences NOT required.) 1. Definition of Civilization Some scholars prefer to define civilizations only as societies with enough economic surpluses to create division of labor and a social hierarchy. The chief difference between civilizations and other societies involves the emergence of formal political organizations‚ or states. Another trait that makes a society a civilization is when
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� PAGE �2� Laurentian University Industrialization: Japan and Russia HIST 1106EL-01 Zakk Bartsch October 14‚ 2007 Zakk Bartsch Dr. Mark Crane HIST 1106EL-01 October 15th‚ 2007 Industrialization: Japan and Russia As Western Europe began to industrialize‚ booming with innovation and new technology‚ the likes of which the eastern peoples of Asia have never seen‚ it became quite evident that they would either conform in this western practice of industrialization willingly‚ or become consumed
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The official arrival of Portuguese was recorded in 1543‚ the lead missionary Fr. Jerome de Angelis arrived in Japan for his Far East expeditions where he and his evangelist delegation prepared for their maiden Christian excursion in 1602 (Reischauer 215). Furthermore‚ Reischauer indicates that this was the beginning of the Christian spread into the ancient Japan expanding the religions to three main philosophies‚ Buddhism‚ Confucianism‚ and now the Christianity. However‚ towards the end of Toyotomi
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b) Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a general who‚ by 1590‚ had most of Japan under his control. After failing to conquer Korea and China‚ he died in 1598. c) Tokugawa Ieyasu: Tokugawa Ieyasu was a general who defeated all rivals after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to found the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. Under his rule‚ their government was centralized feudalism‚ because the outward appearance of a feudal society was kept‚ but imposed central government control. A unified
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On Kabuki The Kabuki theatre is one of the three major classical theatres of Japan‚ together with Noh and Bunraku theatre. It was founded in 1603 by a Shinto priestess named Okuni of Kyoto during the Edo or Tokugawa period—the period of Japan’s isolation from the rest of the world. It started when Okuni started to perform short plays in the dry river-bed of the Kamogawa River in Kyoto. The word “Kabuki” is usually written with three Chinese characters: Ka (song)‚ Bu (dance)‚ and Ki (acting and skills)—thus
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to Western trading‚ Japan eventually developed its own style and quality of literature. Like most literature around the world and through history‚ we can learn a lot about Japans history through its literature. The Heian‚ Kamakura‚ Muromachi‚ and Tokugawa periods are the time period in which we see the development of a Japanese culture that resembles less Chinese culture than the time periods we see in the previous period in Japanese history. The Heian period was between 794 and 1185 and was named
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The Japanese Edo period is the time between 1603 and 1868 when ancient Japan was under the leadership of Tokugawa Shogunate. The period was marked with strict social order. One of the notable strict orders during this period was the rules that guided the marriage of women. There was a marriage between the higher authorities and the one among the common members of the society. The rich and high class were known as samurai‚ and a clear distinction of rules regarding marriage existed between them The
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