Chapter Compelling Question(s): Was there really a European Miracle?
Chapter Supporting Questions:
What were the consequences of political and nationalistic revolutions?
What factors contributed to the growth of nation-states and the rise of nationalism?
How did the growth of nation-states in Europe differ from that in the rest of the world?
How was China weakened by European influence?
How did Japan build itself into a world power in a short time?
Content Standards Addressed:
Content Standards Addressed:
WHG 6.1.5 Interpreting Europe’s Increasing Global Power – Describe Europe’s increasing global power between 1500 and 1900, and evaluate the merits of the argument that this rise was caused by factors internal to Europe
WHG 6.2.1
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D2.His.1.9-12 Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.
D2.His.5.9-12 Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people’s perspectives.
D2.His.14.9-12 Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of events in the past.
D2.His.15.9-12 Distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argument.
Vocabulary introduced in section:
Japanese Feudalism - a social system founded upon a strict hierarchy with the daimyo at the top, followed by the samurai, then farmers and fishermen, artisans, and finally merchants and shopkeepers.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Shogun - a Japanese military dictator, appointed by the emperor who had little other power
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
Samurai - the military nobility of Japan, similar to the knights of Europe
Meiji Restoration (1868-1912) meiji - Japanese for “enlightened rule”
Charter Oath
Oligarchy - a form of government where the power rests in the hands of a few individuals
Daimyo - the landowning nobility class in Japan
Prefecture - a lower-level division of government that is nearest the people
Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
Shintoism
Zaibatsu - Japanese
Feudal Japan was a time in Japanese history that lasted from 1185 to 1603 A.D. This influential time included the rise of the bakufu, or tent government, and rule by shōgun. It also included many wars, battles, and introductions of new weapons, ideas, or religions from foreign places. The mentioned introductions included firearms, Buddhism, and Christianity.
Feudal Japan had eight social classes. Peasants, artisans, and merchants made up 90 percent of Japan’s pouplationship. Artisans made equipments, tools and weapons. Merchants sold goods and produce. Peasants were farmers and fishers who gave most of their produce to daimyo and the shogun in exchange for the right to live on the land.
The samurai class arose in Japan during the end of the Heian Era, which lasted from 794-1185 CE. The emperor of the time and his court had become detached from the needs of the country, and as a result were often referred to as “The Court in the Clouds.” A powerful clan known as the Fujiwara family took advantage of the emperor’s cluelessness, and gained power through tricks and manipulation. After the Fujiwara family’s rise to power, all the nobles and clans began to fight each other and compete over power. This lawlessness lead to the rise of the samurai, who the warlords hired to increase their armies, which would them increase their power. The samurai lived very disiplined and focused lives, where they “had to follow a strict code
Shogun is a title that is bestowed upon a person by the emperor, being a shogun meant that you were military dictator. Shoguns ran the country with their military force and where the true power of the country was held, as the emperor was a figurehead being kept occupied in Kyoto with religious ceremonies. We will be talking about two important shoguns that shifted the momentum of Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Throughout history, the world has seen revolts. Revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the government. But only a few are called revolutions, because they succeeded in overthrowing their government. In this paper, I will examine the 5 revolutions that we have studied thus far: American, French, Haitian, Mexican, and Russian revolutions, and whether they fundamentally changed their respective societies. The revolutionaries promised change that would benefit the people, but when one looks closely, it can be clearly seen that there was little change in the hierarchy, but it was a different group of people in charge. Even when it seemed the revolutionaries had followed through, it proved to be a broken promise, as things went back to the
Feudalism was introduced in Japan in 1185CE when the emperor started to lose power in a series of wars. The emperor gave the most powerful daimyo the title of Shogun so they would not take him over as emperor. This began a new form of control in Japan, where the leaders of different armies controlled smaller pieces of land, rather than one emperor controlling everything. The daimyo divided up the land into smaller areas and relied on peasants to farm the land and be soldiers.
Shogun – The shogun was the emperor’s leading general. Between 1185 and 1867, shoguns formed their own governments and controlled Japan. As well as commanding the military, shoguns ran the everyday affairs of the country and were responsible for collecting taxes.
Feudalism was a social system in ancient Japan and Europe. While this system is not current, it still influences society today. Samurais and knights followed different codes and raised many different traits above others. The class systems were different. Mobility between classes in feudalism was nearly impossible. Although Japan and Europe both had a feudalistic government, they remained dissimilar.
The daimyos began to fight each other for land, and two families, the Taira and the Minamoto, began to fight each other. The Minamoto won, and he declared himself the main Shogun to the emperor. In the city of Kamakura, and then he made a different government for the military.
History involves several moments in time that contributed to the world’s rapid transition and transformation into the leading global culture. Europe’s development of present-day Europe resulted from the relationships between various moments, movements, cultures, and people that proved highly significant to the “big picture” of European history. Each and every period in time had its own importance and function that tied into the larger system of the global community. Five key moments that influenced the development of present-day Europe include the rise of religion, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, nationalism, and World War II.
Most European nations were ruthlessly competitive with each other in the mid to late 1800s. Each one wanted to be unconquerable; by obtaining the most land and resources.
Japan’s feudal system was unlike many other feudal systems. It was not based on a person’s wealth but instead was based on how much they could contribute to the society. The system went from the emperor, shoguns, to daimyo, to samurai, to peasants and finally to merchants and craftsmen. Although the merchants were at the bottom of the feudal system and were not well respected by the other classes, they were still able to live great lives. This was because they were able to make a lot of easy money and were needed by the society and so nothing could be done about them. On the other hand they were not as respected and treated well by the other classes and did not have a lot of power.
The time of feudalism in Japan took place from the 12th via 19th centuries. In Theory, the emperor was the one who headed the Japanese Society. But Fact of the matter was that he was powerless, though regarded, figurehead. Real power laid in the hands of the shogun/ supreme military commander. In 1192 Yoritomo Minamoto was appointed as the shogun. He was the one who set up the kamakura shogunate, it was the first of three military dynasties that ruled almost 700 hundred years in Japan. Shogun quiet often controlled only small part of Japan. He gave lands to vassal lords who in return agreed to support him through military/armies when in need. They began to be known as Great warrior lords called daimyo. They, later on granted land to the smaller
Feudalism the legal and social system that evolved in Western Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war. During 476 to the 1100’s feudalism appeared from Europe starting with France all the way to Japan, so what were the characteristics of feudalism where it began compared to the last place it was, Japan.
Traditionally, there are various areas in Japan that reflect feudalism. Note that feudalism refers to the system of government that existed in medieval Japan where there were noble families, military servants, and peasants (Duus, 4). Members of noble families held land and peasants worked for them in exchange of military protection. All governing and administrative powers concentrated on nobles. They were treated as lords and exercised absolute authority on their subjects. Peasants used to live in the land belonging to these lords, provide them with labor and other services including a share of the farm’s produce (Karl, 183). People related on the basis of lordship and vassalage depending on the social class one belonged. Feudalism prevailed