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| Why did the Tokugawa shogunate keep Japan isolated from 1603 until 1853? |
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| to keep foreigners from tampering with Japan’s affairs |
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| Who traveled to the United States and Europe and returned to Japan with new ideas? |
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| The Meiji government supported and encouraged Japan’s modernization and industrialization in all except one of the following ways. Which of the following was not a way in which the Meiji government supported and encouraged Japan’s modernization and industrialization? |
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| closed all ports except Nagasaki to foreigners |
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Which of the following best explains why Japan quickly built up its military in the late 1800s?
- The Meiji government wanted to make eastern Russia a Japanese colony.
- Neighboring Korea was a strong country and had a large military.
- Western imperial powers controlled large parts of Asia.
- Commodore Matthew Perry attacked Japanese ports in the 1850s. |
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| Western imperial powers controlled large parts of Asia. |
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| Why did the Meiji government begin building schools in most Japanese towns and villages in the late 1800s? |
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| Officials knew that modernization required an educated workforce. |
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| What describes Japan’s imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? |
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| a desire to increase its wealth, power, security, and prestige |
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As a result of Japan’s imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, __________.
- it fought a war with China
- a wave of nationalism swept through the country
- it acquired three territories by 1910
- all of the above |
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| What type of climate does most of eastern China have? |
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| What kind of climate does most of Mongolia have? |
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| the policy or action by which one nation controls another country or territory |
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