HIST 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Crop Yield, Child Abandonment, Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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[note: * = most important for the next exam] Was a very ruthless military leader and warlord controlled of japan. Woke up one morning surrounded by troops of his most trusted retainer, and he killed himself. *toyotomi hideyoshi (1536-1598): implemented various strategies to keep control over japan: Sword hunt in 1588: he made peasants give up all of their weapons (the peasants often used to aid warlords fight in battles) because he did not want peasants to be able to fight against him in battle. Guns were important because, unlike swords, it did not take peasants long to learn to use them. He said that if the peasants gave up all of their weapons then he would melt them and make a statue for the buddha; they would receive religious merits. He did the following because he wanted to know the exact crop yield of each village:
