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| 2548355386 | Japan | Relatively isolated for thousands of years, early on it was influenced by China and Korea, rejected civil service exams in place emphasis on birth, not education | 0 | |
| 2548355387 | Yamato | The first and only ruling family in Japan, emerged in the fifth century, Shinto = native religion, Buddhism spread to Japan in six Century but did not replace Shinto | 1 | |
| 2548355388 | Heian | aka Fujiwara Period, 800-ish, decrease of Chinese influence in Japan, Power of aristocratic families increased, women enjoyed more freedom than other women of cultures elsewhere | 2 | |
| 2548355389 | Feudal Japan | 1200-ish, developed independently from but at the same time as feudalism in Western Europe, Land for loyalty system, Real power rested with the shogun, daimyo (like landholding lords in Europe) were powerful samurai, Code of Bushido (for samurai, stressed loyalty, courage, honor) strictly patriarchal | 3 | |
| 2548355390 | Tokugawa Shogunate | 1600-1868, shogun gained power, daimyo and emperor lost power, strict social order, no social mobility allowed, persecution of Christians, Isolationism, anti-western, absence of foreign influence (US forced Japan to open up trade in 1853, Japan and overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate then started to industrialize) | 4 | |
| 2548355391 | Meiji Restoration | 1860s, westernization of Japan, abolished samurai class, compulsory military service, industrialized very quickly, won Sino-Japanese war versus China in 1895, won Russo-Japanese war versus Russia in 1905, became an imperial power | 5 |
