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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Here's what I understand of Japanese history. I don't know that much but here goes...
-Ieyasu Tokugawa finally united Japan in the 17th century (I don't know how... did he conquer it all by force?)
-Although the Japanese had been in contact with Europeans, it was limited and they preferred to be isolated. However sometime in the 19th century Japan began the move to modernisation and began to open up.
-Although isolated for a long time, much of their culture has a Chinese influence.
Yup that's pretty much all I know... Correct me if I'm wrong  |
x3
tokugawa ieyasu used lots n lots of tricks to become a shogun~
i believe he didn't even start off as a samurai~
forgot how, but he some how rose to power x3
and took over hideyoshi's(??) dream of the unification of japan~
he eventually did so w/ the battle of sekigahara in like 1600 i believe x]
later on, he fools the emperor by creating false ties with his family (in order become a shogun, one must be within the emperor's family x]) and becomes a shogun~ thus the start of the tokugawa shogunate.
in 1854~ matthew perry forced teh japanese to open their ports to trade w/ the us~ >.>''
this led to loads of internal conflicts x3
which eventually led to teh bakumatsu and the meiji restoration~~~ x]
japanese were also heavily influenced by koreans and a bit by the portuguese and dutch i believe x]