2. 1.Japan (Tokugawa Shogunate), China (Qing Dynasty), & Russia (Peter the Great) all experienced major political growth, military conflict, & new cultural contacts from 1500-1800 2.Japan’s small size: political unification much faster

3. 1.1100-1600: Japan’s feudal period 2. regional warlords/nobles (daimyo)controlled towns - army of warriors (samurai) - Shogun was the hereditary military commander 3.samurai “chivalry” code of conduct: Bushido

4. 4. Japanese contracts between lord-samurai were verbal agreements 5.Hideyoshi was the most successful warlord during Japan’s Civil War - launched invasion of Korea (1592) - defeated by Chinese Manchus

6. 1. 1603: Japan’s civil war ended - Shogun Tokugawa established military government 2.Capital moved from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo): - trade increased w/ decentralized government - Shogun paid lords in rice…lords paid followers in rice - warriors lost power (became more educated, elitist) - merchants/manufacturers gained more wealth

9. 1. Portuguese arrived (1543)…both conflict/opportunity 2. major impact on Japanese military technology - Daimyo began using firearms 3. Jesuit missionaries converted many Japanese 3. - 1617: Christians beheaded & crucified 4. 1639: isolationist government executed foreigners

10. 1. 1700s experienced population growth - Shogun’s inability to control the price of rice 2. Government protected the samurai & limited power of the merchant class (Confucianism looked down on merchants) 3. decentralized government could NOT control merchant class...

11. 4. Merchants created: - Kabuki theater - woodblock prints - silk screened fabrics 5. incident of “Forty-Seven Ronin” (1701-1703): end of samurai (government law over “traditional” values)