Posted: April 4th, 2015

Tokugawa

Tokugawa

Order Description

Explain how the Perry Expedition to Tokugawa Japan and the subsequent unequal treaties that it led to undermined the authority of the Tokugawa Shogunate and led to the Meiji Restoration. Describe the major reforms of the Meiji government that allowed it to abolish the major institutions of the Tokugawa period such as the daimyo domains and the samurai class itself in the creation of a modern industrial nation. Be sure to discuss the significance of major foreign and domestic conflicts that this process of nation-building entailed.
Tokugawa

Order Description

Explain how the Perry Expedition to Tokugawa Japan and the subsequent unequal treaties that it led to undermined the authority of the Tokugawa Shogunate and led to the Meiji Restoration. Describe the major reforms of the Meiji government that allowed it to abolish the major institutions of the Tokugawa period such as the daimyo domains and the samurai class itself in the creation of a modern industrial nation. Be sure to discuss the significance of major foreign and domestic conflicts that this process of nation-building entailed.