Download CH 19- An Age of Explorations and Isolation: 1400-1800

CH 19An Age of Explorations and Isolation:
1400-1800
Section 1- Europeans Explore
the East
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By the early 1400s, Europeans were
ready to venture beyond their
boarders.
The Renaissance encouraged,
among other things, a new spirit of
adventure and curiosity.
This spirit of adventure, along with
several other important reasons,
prompted Europeans to explore the
world around them.
These explorations began a long
process that would bring together
the peoples of many different lands
and permanently change the world.
For “God, Glory, and Gold”
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Before the 1400s, European contact with
the rest of the world was limited.
Beginning around 1100, European
crusaders battled the Muslims for control
of the Holy Lands in Southwest Asia.
Then in 1275, the Italian trader Marco
Polo traveled to court of Kublai Khan in
China.
Many people, including Christopher
Columbus, were fascinated by Marco
Polo’s account of his travels to the court of
Kublai Khan and the exotic East.
Fourteenth-century conquests by the
Ottoman Empire made traveling to the
East by land difficult.
However, for the most part European had
neither the desire or ability to explore
foreign lands.
That changed by the early 1400s, the
Europeans began wanting a route by sea.
Motives for Exploration-(The 3 Gs)
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“Gold, God, & Glory.”
The most important motive for exploration
was the desire for new sources of wealth
(Gold).
Merchants, adventurers, and government
officials hoped to find precious metals in
and expand trade with the East, especially
trade in spices.
European merchants and traders saw an
opportunity to make a profit from trading
spices and luxury goods from Asia.
European had been introduced to spices
during the Crusades.
The demand for spices exploded!
Spices such as: nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon,
and pepper. (All added flavor to bland
European food.)
Demand was higher than supply, therefore
merchants could charge high prices and
make great profits.
Gold Cont.
• The Muslims and Italians controlled trade from
Asia to Europe.
• Europeans, with the exception of the Italians,
were not happy with this arrangement because
they were having to pay higher prices.
• By the 1400s, European merchants and
monarchs (England, Spain, Portugal, and
France) were looking for a way to bypass the
Italian middlemen.
• This meant finding a direct sea route to Asia.
GOD
• A second motive was religious,
the desire to spread the Catholic
faith to native peoples. (God).
• Europeans saw it as their
Christian responsibility to
Christianize the rest of the world.
• This feeling of responsibility is
known as “the white man’s
burden.”
• Bartolomeu Dias, an early
Portuguese explorer, explains his
motives in the following quote:
“To serve God and his Majesty, to
give light to those who were in
the darkness and to grow rich as
all men desire to do.”
Glory
• Adventure and glory
comprised a third motive
for European expansion.
• If you earned riches and
spread the faith, you
would receive glory upon
your return home.
Technology Makes Exploration Possible
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By the fifteenth century the European
monarchies had expanded their
power and resources to a point of
being able to support ambitious
expansion.
Europeans had also reached a level
of technology that made a series of
regular, long voyages possible.
In the 1400s, shipbuilders designed
the caravel. A ship that was sturdier
than earlier vessels and could sail
against the wind.
Sailors also used the astrolabe (used
to determine latitude) and the
magnetic compass (used to
determine direction).
Europeans acquired much of this
technology from Arabs.
Arab navigators and mathematicians
had drawn charts, called portolani
(records) showing coastlines and
distances between ports.
By 1500, cartography–the art and
science of mapmaking–had
developed to where Europeans had
fairly accurate maps of where they
wanted to explore.
Portugal Leads the Way
• Portugal was the
leader in developing
and applying sailing
innovations.
• Portugal was the first
country to establish
trading outposts on
the west coast of
Africa.
• Eventually, the
Portuguese would
push further east into
the Indian Ocean.
Prince Henry
“The Navigator”
• Strong government support helped
Portugal become the leader in
overseas exploration.
• Prince Henry “The Navigator” was
the most enthusiastic supporter of
exploration.
• Prince Henry dreams of overseas
exploration began in 1415 when he
helped conquer the Muslim city of
Ceuta in North Africa.
• In Ceuta, he learned of the vast
wealth beyond Europe.
Prince Henry
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In 1419, Prince Henry founded a
navigation school on the southwest
coast of Portugal.
By the time Prince Henry died in
1460, the Portuguese had
established a series of trading
posts along the west coast of
Africa.
Eventually, the Portuguese would
trade for African captives to be
used as slaves.
Having established their presence
in Africa the Portuguese turned
their attention to finding a sea
route to Asia.
Portuguese Explorers
• In 1488, Portuguese captain
Bartolomeu Dias ventured down
the African coast and rounded the
southern tip of Africa, but had to
turn back because his crew was
exhausted and lack of supplies.
• In 1497, Portuguese explorer
Vasco da Gama explored Africa's
east coast.
• In 1498, da Gama reached the
port of Calicut, on India’s
southwestern cost.
• When returning home in 1499, da
Gama loaded his boat with spices.
The cargo was worth 60 times the
cost of the voyage.
• Da Gama’s voyage of 27,000
miles had given Portugal a direct
sea route to India.
Spain Also
Makes Claims
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As the Portuguese sailed east to reach
the source of the spice trade, the
Spanish sailed west to find it.
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Spain had more resources and people
than Portugal, and it established an
overseas empire quite different from the
Portuguese trading posts.
Spain also desired to have a direct sea
route to Asia.
In 1492, the Italian Christopher
Columbus convinced Spain to finance his
voyage to reach Asia by sailing west
across the Atlantic Ocean.
In October 1492, Columbus reached an
island in the Caribbean.
He though he had reached the East
Indies. He was wrong.
Columbus’s voyage opened up the way
for European to colonize the Americas.
The immediate impact of Columbus’s
voyage was increased tension between
Portugal and Spain.
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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Portugal believed Columbus had reached Asia. The Portuguese
believed Columbus had claimed land for Spain that had already
been visited Portuguese sailors.
The rivalry became more intense between the two nations, so
in 1493 Pope Alexander VI stepped in to keep the peace.
The pope suggested drawing an imaginary dividing line north to
south through the Atlantic Ocean. The line, known as the Line
of Demarcation, would give lands west to Spain and lands east
to Portugal.
However, Portugal was still unhappy, so they moved the line to
the west to include parts of modern-day Brazil for Portugal.
In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, in
which they agreed to honor the Line of Demarcation.
Trading Empires in the
Indian Ocean
• European nations
scrambled to establish
profitable trading outposts
in south and southeast
Asia.
• European’s battled the
region’s inhabitants and
each other.
Portugal’s Trading Empire
• The Portuguese took
control of the spice trade
from the Muslims in 1509
when it defeated the Muslim
fleet off the coast of India.
• In 1510, Portugal captured
Goa and made it the capital
of their trading empire.
• In 1511, Portugal captured
the city of Malacca, which
gave them control of the
Moluccas (The Spice
Islands).
• In time, Portugal’s success
in Asia attracted attention
from other European
nations.
Ferdinand Magellan
• As early as 1521, a Spanish expedition led by
Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines.
• In 1565, Spain began to settle in the Philippines.
Dutch East India Company
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Beginning in 1600, the English and the Dutch began to challenge Portugal’s
dominance in the Indian ocean.
By 1600, the Dutch became a leading sea power.
The Dutch with the help of it’s rich and powerful Dutch East India Company
drove out the English and establish dominance.
The Dutch establish their trading headquarters Batavia on the island of Java.
Throughout the 1600s the Dutch increased their control over Indian Ocean
trade.
By 1700, the British and French had established a foothold in the region.
As Europeans battled for a share in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, their
influence on mainland Southeast Asia remained limited.
Section 2- China Limits European
Contacts
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The European voyages of
exploration had led to
opportunities for trade.
Europeans made healthy profits
form trade in the Indian ocean
region.
They began looking for additional
sources of wealth.
Soon, European countries were
seeking trade relations in east
Asia.
First, with the Chinese, and later
with the Japanese.
By the time the Portuguese
arrived off the Chinese coast in
1514, the Chinese had driven out
their Mongol rulers and had united
under a new dynasty.
China Under the Powerful
Ming Dynasty
• China had become the
dominant power in Asia
under the Ming Dynasty.
• Ming ruler were not
going to allow outsiders
from distant lands to
threaten the peace and
prosperity they had
brought to China when
they had ended Mongol
rule.
Rise of the Ming
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Hongwu, a peasant’s son,
commanded the rebel army that
drove the Mongols out of China in
1368.
Hongwu became the first Ming
emperor in 1368.
He began reforms designed to
restore the agricultural lands
devastated by the war, erase all
traces of the Mongol past, and
promote power and prosperity.
The agricultural reform increased
rice production and improved
irrigation.
He used respected traditions and
institutions to restore stability. For
example, he a encouraged a return
to Confucian moral standards and
improved imperial administration by
restoring the merit-based civil service
examination system.
Yonglo
• Hongwu’s death in 1398
led to a power struggle.
• His son, Yonglo emerged
victorious.
• Yonglo continued many of
his fathers policies.
• He moved the capital to
Beijing.
• He also had a curiosity
about the outside world.
• In 1405, he launched
seven voyages of
exploration.
Voyages of Zheng He
• Zheng He led all seven of
Yonglo’s voyages.
• His expeditions were
remarkable in size
• Everything about them was
large- distances traveled,
fleet size, and ship
measurement.
• Everywhere Zheng He went
he distributed gifts to
demonstrate China’s
superiority.
• As a result, more than 16
countries sent tribute to the
Ming court.
• However, after the seventh
voyage, in 1433, China
withdrew into isolation.
Voyages of Zheng He
Ming Relations with Foreign
Countries
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China's official trade policies in the 1500s
reflected its isolation.
Foreign trade was only allowed at three
coastal ports: Canton, Macao, & Ningbo.
Even though foreign trade was restricted,
trade flourished.
Christian missionaries accompanied
European traders into China.
They brought Christianity and European
science and technology, such as the clock.
The first missionary to have an impact was
the Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci.
Manchus Found the Qing Dynasty
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By 1600, the Ming had ruled
for more than 200 years and
the dynasty was weakening
because of: ineffective
rulers, corrupt officials, and
the government was broke.
High taxes and bad
harvests pushed millions to
starvation.
This led to rebellion.
In 1644, the Manchus, from
Manchuria, invaded China
and the Ming Dynasty
collapsed.
The Manchus named their
dynasty the Qing.
They ruled for 260 years
and expanded China’s
boarders.
China Under the Qing
• At first, many Chinese resisted Manchu
rule.
• However, the Manchus slowly earned the
respect of their subjects. They upheld
China’s traditional Confucian beliefs and
social structures.
• Two powerful Manchu rulers contributed
to the acceptance of the new dynasty.
• Kangzi and his grandson Qian-long.
• Kangzi reduced governemnt spending
and lowered taxes. He was scholor and
patron of the arts.
• Under Qian-long China reached its
greatest size and prosperity.
Manchus Continue Chinese
Isolation
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The Chinese accepted the Dutch as
trade partners because the Dutch
accepted China’s restrictions.
They were also willing to perform
“kowtow”, a ritual that involved kneeing in
front of the emperor and touching one’s
head to the ground nine times.
Great Britain also wanted to trade with
China , but the British did not like China’s
trade restrictions,
In 1793, Lord George Macartney
delivered a letter from King George III to
Qian-long asking for a better trade
arrangement.
Macartney refused to perform kowtow
and Qian-long denied the British request.
Korea Under the Manchus
• In 1636, the Manchus
conquered Korea and
made it a vassal state.
• Korea organized its
government according to
Confusion principles and
adopted China’s
technology, culture, and
especially it policy of
isolation.
• When the Manchus
established the Qing
Dynasty in China Korea’s
political relationship with
China did not change.
Life In Ming & Qing China
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In the 1600s and 1700s, life improved for most in China because of peace and prosperity.
During the Qing Dynasty irrigation and fertilizer use increased in agriculture.
As a result food production, nutrition, families, and population grew.
These expanded families preferred sons over daughters.
Son’s raised their families under their parents roof, assuring aging parents help with farming.
Many daughters were killed because they were not valued.
Even though men dominated their household and wives, women had significant responsibilities.
The great masterpiece of Chinese fiction was written during this period. Dream of the Red
Chamber by Cao Zhan examines upper class Manchu society during the 1700s.
Drama was popular entertainment, especially in rural illiterate areas. Plays presented Chinese
history and cultural heroes entertained and helped unify Chinese society by creating a national
culture.
Section 3- Japan Returns to
Isolation
Group Activity- Technology: PowerPoint or Prezi
• The class will be divided into 3 Groups.
Group 1- A New Feudalism Under Strong Leaders (pg 542-544)
Group 2- Life in Tokugawa Japan (pg 544)
Group 3- Conflict Between Europe and Japan (pg 545-546)
Group 3- The Closed Country Policy (pg 547)
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Day 1- Research: You and your group will read your group’s assigned
section. After reading, your group will discuss what has been read. After
discussing, your group will develop a verbal and visual presentation over
your group’s section. Note: Be sure to include the main ideas from your
group’s section in your group’s verbal and visual presentation.
Day 2- Presentations: You and your group will give your verbal and visual
presentations that was developed during Day 1. Everyone in the group must
present verbally (Everyone must Talk!). A individual’s failure to present will
result in a grade of 0.
Group Activity- Technology:
PowerPoint or Prezi Rubric
• 20 points available for the Group Activity
• 10 points: Attendance-5 points for attendance on Day1
-5 points for attendance on Day2
*NOTE- Students must be present for both days of the
Group Activity, or they will have a make-up assignment.
• 5 points: Participation-Students works well with group mates and contributes
to the development of the presentation.
• 5 points: Presentation-Students help develop and create the presentation and
verbally present.
Section 3- Japan Returns to
Isolation
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In the 1300s, the unity that had been achieved in Japan in the previous
century broke down.
Shoguns, or military leaders, in the north and south fiercely fought one
another of power.
Although these two rival courts later came back together at the end of the
century, a series of politically weak shoguns let control of the country slip
form their grasp.
The whole land was torn by factional strife and economic unrest.
It would be centuries before Japan would again be unified.
A New Feudalism Under Strong
Leaders
• In 1467, civil war shattered Japan’s old feudal system.
• Centralized rule ended.
• Power drained away from the shogun to territorial
lords in hundreds of separate domains.
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A violent era of disorder followed.
This time in Japanese history, which lasted from 1467-1568, is
known as Sengoku, or “Warring States,” period.
Powerful samurai seized control of old feudal estates.
They offered peasants and others protection in return for their
loyalty.
These warrior chieftains, called daimyo, became lords in a new
kind of Japanese feudalism.
Under this feudalism, security came from the daimyos.
The emperor at Kyoto became a figurehead, having a
leadership title but no actual power.
The new Japanese feudalism resembled European feudalism in
many ways.
The daimyo built fortified castles and created small armies of
samurai on horses.
Later they added foot soldiers with muskets to their ranks.
Rival daimyo often fought each other for territory.
This led to disorder throughout the land.
Local Lords
Rule
New Leaders Restore Order
• A number of ambitious
daimyo hoped to
gather enough power
to take control of the
entire country.
• One, the brutal and
ambitious Oda
Nobunaga, defeated
his rivals and seized
the imperial capital
Kyoto in 1568.
Oda Nobunaga
• Following his own motto “Rule the
empire by force,” Nobunaga sought to
eliminate his remaining enemies.
• In 1575, Nobunaga’s 3,000 soldiers
armed with muskets crushed an enemy
force of samurai cavalry.
• This was the first time firearms had been
used effectively in battle in Japan.
• However, Nobunaga was not able to
unify Japan.
• He committed seppuku, the ritual suicide
of a samurai, in 1582, when one of his
own generals turned on him
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Nobunaga’s best general, Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, continued his fallen leader’s
mission.
• Hideyoshi set out to destroy the daimyo
that remained hostile.
• By 1590, by combining brute force with
shrewd political alliances, he controlled
most of the country.
• Hideyoshi did not stop with Japan, he
wanted to eventually conquer China.
• In 1592, he invaded Korea and began a
long camping against the Koreans and
their Ming Chinese allies.
• When Hideyoshi died in 1598, his troops
withdrew from Korea.
Tokugawa Shogunate Unites Japan
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One of Hideyoshi’s strongest daimyo
allies, Tokugawa Ieyasu, completed the
unification of Japan.
In 1600, Ieyasu defeated his rivals at the
Battle of Sekigahara.
His victory earned him the loyalty of
daimyo throughout Japan.
Three years later, he became the sole
ruler, or shogun.
He then moved Japan’s capital to his
power base at Edo, which later became
the city of Tokyo.
“Alternate Attendance Policy”
• Japan was unified, but the daimyo still governed at the
local level.
• To keep the daimyo from rebelling, Isyasu required that
they spend every other year in the capital.
• Even when they returned to their lands, they had to
leave their families behind as hostages in Edo.
• Through this “alternate attendance policy” (a.k.a. the
hostage system) and other restrictions Ieyasu tamed the
daimyo.
• This was a major step toward restoring centralized
government to Japan.
• As a result, the rule of law overcame the rule of the
sword.
Tokugawa Shogunate
• Ieyasu founded the
Tokugawa Shogunate,
which would hold power until
1867.
• On his deathbed in 1616,
Ieyasu advised his son,
Hidetada, “ Take care of the
people. Strive to be vitreous.
Never neglect to protect the
country.”
• Most Tokugawa shoguns
followed that advice.
• Their rule brought a welcome
order to Japan.
Life in Tokugawa Japan
• Japan enjoyed more than two and a half centuries of
stability, prosperity, and isolation under Tokugawa
shoguns.
• Farmers produced more food, and the population
rose.
• However, the majority of peasants still lived miserable
lives because of heavy taxes.
• The people who prospered in Tokugawa society were
the merchant class and the wealthy.
• However, everyone benefited from a flowering of
Japanese culture during this era.
Society in
Tokugawa
Japan
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Tokugawa society was
very structured.
The emperor had the top
rank in society, but was
just a figurehead.
The actual ruler was the
shogun.
Below him were the
daimyo.
Then came the samurai
warriors.
The peasants and
artisans followed them.
Peasants made up about
4/5 of the population.
Merchants were at the
bottom, but they gradually
became more important
as the Japanese economy
expanded.
Confucian Values
• In Japan, as in China, Confucian
values influenced ideas about
society.
• According to Confucius, the ideal
society depended on agriculture, not
commerce.
• Farmers, not merchants, made ideal
citizens.
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Japan, however, peasant farmers
bore the main tax burden and faced
more difficulties than any other
class.
• Many of them abandoned farm life
and headed for expanding towns
and cities.
• There, they mixed with samurai,
artisans, and merchants.
Shift From Rural to
Urban Society
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By the mid-1700s, Japan began to shift from a rural to an urban
society.
Edo had grown from a small village in 1600 to perhaps the largest
city in the world, with a population of more than a million.
The rise of large commercial centers increased employment
opportunities for women.
Women found jobs in entertainment, textiles, manufacturing, and
publishing.
However, the majority of women still let sheltered and restricted
lives as peasant wives.
They worked in fields, managed the household, cared for children,
and each woman obeyed her husband without question.
Culture Under the Tokugawa
Shogunate
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During the Tokugawa era traditional
culture continued to thrive, but
traditional elements face competition
in the cities from new styles of
literature, drama, and art.
Townspeople read a new type of
fiction, realistic stories about selfmade merchants or the hardships of
life.
The people also read haiku, 5-7-5syllable, 3-line verse poetry. Matsuo
Basho was the greatest haiku poet.
Townspeople also attended kabuki
theater.
Actors in elaborate costumes, using
music, dance, and mime, performed
skits about modern life.
The paintings the people enjoyed
were often woodblock prints showing
city life.
Kabuki
Woodblock
Prints
Contact Between
Europe and Japan
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Europeans began coming
to Japan in the 16th
century, during the Warring
States period.
Despite the severe
disorder in the country, the
Japanese welcomed
traders and missionaries,
from Portugal and later
other European countries.
The Europeans introduced
new technologies and
ideas.
However, within a century
they had worn out their
welcome.
Portugal Sends Ships, Merchants, and
Technology to Japan
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The Japanese first
encountered Europeans in
1543, when shipwrecked
Portuguese sailors
washed up on shore in
southern Japan.
Portuguese merchants
soon followed.
They wanted to get in on
the Japanese trade with
China and southeast Asia.
They brought clocks,
eyeglasses, tobacco,
firearms, and other
unfamiliar items from
Europe.
Japanese merchants were
glad to receive the
newcomers and their
goods.
The Daimyo Welcome the Europeans
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The daimyo also welcomed Europeans.
They were particularly interested in the
Portuguese muskets and cannons, to gain
an advantage over their rivals.
The Japanese purchased weapons from
the Portuguese and soon began their own
production.
Firearms forever changed the timehonored tradition of the Japanese warrior,
whose principle weapon had been the
sword.
Many samurai, who retained the sword as
their principle weapon, would lose their
lives to musket fire in future combat.
The cannon also had a huge impact on
warfare and life in Japan.
Daimyo had to build fortified castles to
withstand the destructive force of
cannonballs.
The castles attracted merchants and
others to surrounding lands.
Many of these lands were to grow into
those towns and cities of modern Japan.
Including Edo (Tokyo), Osaka, Himeji, and
Nagoya.
Christian Missionaries in Japan
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In 1549, Christian missionaries
began arriving in Japan.
The Japanese accepted the
missionaries because they
associated them with European
trade.
However, the religious orders of
Jesuits, Franciscans, and
Dominicans had come to
convert the Japanese.
Francis Xavier, a Jesuit, led the
first mission to Japan.
He baptized about a hundred
converts before he left Japan.
By 1600, other European
missionaries had converted
about 300,000 Japanese to
Christianity.
Christianity Gets Banned
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The success of the missionaries upset Tokugawa Ieyasu.
He found aspects of the Christian invasion troublesome.
Missionaries scorned traditional Japanese beliefs and
sometimes involved themselves in local politics.
At first, Ieyasu did not take any action, because he
feared that driving off traders would hurt Japan’s
economy.
However, by 1612, the shogun had come to fear religious
uprisings more.
He banned Christianity and focused on ridding his
country of all Christians.
Ieyasu died in 1616, but repression of Christianity
continued off and on for the next two decades under his
successors.
In 1637, the issue came to a head because of an
uprising.
After the uprising, the shoguns ruthlessly persecuted
Christians.
European missionaries were killed or driven out of
Japan.
All Japanese were forced to demonstrate faithfulness to
some branch of Buddhism.
These policies eventually eliminated Christianity in Japan
and led to the formation of an exclusion policy.
The Closed Country Policy
• The persecution of Christians was part of an
attempt to control foreign ideas.
• The strong leaders who took control of Japan
did not like the indoctrination of European ideas
and ways, but they valued European trade.
• As time passed, Tokugawa shoguns realized
they could safely exclude both the missionaries
and merchants.
• By 1639, they had sealed Japan’s boarders and
instituted a “closed country policy.”
Japan in Isolation
• Most commercial contacts with Europeans ended.
• Only one port, Nagasaki, remained open to foreign traders,
• But only Dutch and Chinese merchants were allowed into the
port.
• Since Tokugawa shoguns controlled Nagasaki, they now had a
monopoly on foreign trade, which continued to be profitable.
• For more than 200 years, Japan remained basically closed to
Europeans.
• In addition, the Japanese were forbidden to leave, so as not to
bring back foreign ideas.
• Japan would continue to develop, but a s a self-sufficient
country, free from European attempts to colonize or to establish
their presence.