For Wednesday's class, please ready chapter 13, pp. 272-284, and be prepared the answer the following questions:
- What led to civil war at the end of the Ashikaga shogunate?
- How did the Tokugawa clan unify Japan, and how did they control it?
- What was the Sankin Kotai, "alternate residence" system, and what effects did it have?
- How were merchants viewed and treated by the Tokugawa shogunate?
- Why did the Tokugawas expel foreigners and suppress Christianity and foreign trade?
- What changed the fortunes of samurai and merchants?
- Why did Shinto see a revival?
- What made Edo such a populace city?
- What endangered Japanese forests, and what was done about it?
- How did Japanese art come to Europe, and what influence did it have there?
- Who forced Japan to normalize trade?
- What is the Meiji restoration?
- What made it possible for Japan to modernize so rapidly?
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