HIS 1710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Tokyo Bay, The Famine, Arms Race
1 Oct 2016
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The name of the era, tempo was a period of both calamitous events and important reforms. In the beginning, the chief villain was weather. Spring was dry and the summer was inordinately rainy and cold. The rice crop and those of other staples failed, especially in northeastern. The crop loss in some areas ranged from 50-75 percent. More than one hundred thousand dies of starvation in northeastern. By the middle of the century, the russians had established themselves on the sea of okhotsk. In 1792 and 1793, the commander of an expedition sent by catherine the. Great attempted to explore the possibility of trade with japan; the. Japanese replied that nagasaki was the only port he could enter. Over ten years later, in refused, the envoy encouraged headstrong sailors to raid japanese trading ports and garrisons in sakhalin and the kuriles in.
