PART ONE: First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 500 B

d. high literacy rates (40 percent of males, 15 percent of females) e. change made it impossible for the shogunate to freeze society. 3. corruption was widespread. C. American Intrusion and the Meiji Restoration. 1. United States sent Commodore Perry in 1853 to demand better treatment for castaways, right to refuel and buy provisions, and the opening of trade ports. 2. the shogun’s ... ................
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