HIST1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Early Modern Japanese, Tokugawa Shogunate

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25 Apr 2017
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While europe expanded and developed, the previously powerful states of japan and china were stagnating, turning inward, closing themselves off from the world. From the 1620s through the 1740s, china and japan were carrying out important and productive internal reforms. Their rulers were focused on an era of productive internal reforms. Both had civil war/political upheaval in 1600s. Looking to strengthen and stabilize their regimes. As a result of this they limit their contact with west/ideas/commerce that were seen as possible sources of destabilization of these new regimes. Decided to focus on internal development instead. Over rapid population growth, agricultural development, strengthened political empires, increased internal economic systems. East asian states c. 1620s-1740s: renovation, not stagnation. New crops for consumption (maise, sweet potatoes), export (tea, indigo, sugar) Gradual period of consolidation after period of local and regional civil wars. Tokugawa established, becomes most ordered dynasty of all. Maps change from being village-centric to japan-centric.

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