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1, Question: What was the situation in Japan about 1850? What were the strengths and weakness of Japanese society? What were the internal and external factors that led to the dissolution of the Tokugawa Shogunate? Try to look at as many different elements as possible. [NOTE: 1850 is before the arrival of the “Black Ships”. The question deals with the situation at the end of the Edo Period, not in the Meiji Period.
2, Question : Oda Nobunaga can be said to have “reconstructed” the Japanese state or, in an alternative model, while he may have consolidated the previous state, he greatly expanded the state (from Hokkaido to Okinawa) absorbing (colonializing or imperializing) areas such as Tohoku which had not been under effective control of previous regimes. Describe each model. What difference does it make what perspective one takes of these events?
Please avoid too mcuh academic word because I am an internatinal student.
