HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Meiji Restoration, Emperor Meiji, Xenophobia
31 Oct 2016
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History 1dd3-japan in the 19th century part 1. The tokugawa shogunate: during the tokugawa shogunate after 1600, japan was technically ruled by a hereditary. Japanese society: the bulk of the population was ordered hierarchically under the lords an samurai in a very stratified social structure. Samurai weapons like swords that only samurai were permitted to wield. Trade ties: ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396), the japa(cid:374)ese (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:449)ell a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e of chi(cid:374)a(cid:859)s t(cid:396)ou(cid:271)leso(cid:373)e relations with the. North america after the mexican-american war in the 1840s: american merchants began plying the north pacific more intensively and it was only a matter of time before they began pressing the japanese for trade ties. Commodore matthew perry: famously, the first american foray into japan was made by commodore matthew perry whose fleets of black ships first arrived in japan in 1853, and returned the follow year to conclude a trade agreement. Japan was then inundated by european requests for trade ties and within a few years of.
