1. No Warmup Get out your Decolonization worksheet from Thursday.
Grab a Japan Intro and Japan Vocab worksheet from back.
Ready 1 minute after the bell.

2. Logistics
If you missed the Friday test/quiz, you will need to make it up ASAP.

3. Japan in the Great Divergence
In the 19th century, Japan went through a remarkable transformation.
In 1853 Japan:
Closed off from outside trade
Still mostly feudal with Lords called Daimyo and knights called Samurai
Technology had barely grown since 1550
Army still mostly used bows, spears, swords, and armor—Fleet still wooden sailboats
Stable government
Peaceful, rural society
In 1914 Japan:
Major trading and imperial power
Modernized, industrial society
Modern military with rifles, machine guns, artillery—Navy with armored steam-powered gunships.
The most powerful industrial economy in 6000 miles

4. Japan in the Great Divergence
1853
1930

5. Japan in the Great Divergence
1853
1914

6. The Opening of Japan
The whole process began with something called the “Opening of Japan” in
This occurred when America forced Japan to abandon its isolation and become America’s trading partner.

7. Assignment: Japan Intro
Read and answer the questions on the worksheet.
Build out your vocab list while you do.
Vocab Quiz Wednesday

8. Vocab Shogun: the military dictator of Japan.
Shogunate: a shogun’s government.
Edo Period: the shogunate from ; peaceful, stable, isolated
Daimyo: a feudal lord
Samurai: a feudal knight—later a bureaucrat
Tozama: the daimyo who fought against the shogun during Sengoku, now political outsiders.
Fudai: the daimyo who fought with the shogun during Sengoku
Sengoku Jidai: a 150 year civil war from
Bushido: a military philosophy common during the Edo Period. Advocated loyalty, honor, and duty unto death.
Sakoku: the “closed country.” Japan’s policy of isolation.