EAS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Lame, Bakumatsu
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Europe can not move the way it did w/o the interactions made. > independent invention: an invention w/in a community (by themselves/internally) > diffusionism: came into the community from another: europe naturally progresses and modernizes, non-europe remains stagnant, backward, european progress has some kind of innateness, non-europe lacks this innate quality. The idea of if we are ahead, you are naturally behind . Japan had kept itself not necessarily secluded but pretty much secluded than. China and korea there were problems each country faced internally various western empires sought trade w/in these 3 countries. However, china/japan/korea responded in diff. ways: existing domestic problems existing domestic advantages political situations world events (timing) Tokugawa japan (1603 - 1868) by the 18th century, trading was being more forced and pressured from. Changes at the end of the tokugawa period. Changes to distribution of wealth (samurai making less $ and merchants are making more)
