INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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Question
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Japan feared they were falling behind their neighbor China.
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Japan’s ties with Britain gave them an advantage in textile manufacturing.
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The new Meiji government pursued a course of modernization.
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The shogun saw an opportunity to sell manufactured good throughout Asia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hoping to protect Japan from a potential European threat, they began to demand military and industrial reforms in response. But these changes fed into the unrest already bubbling up within Japan from the peasants and samurai classes. The result was a period of political chaos.
Detailed explanation-2: -Prompted by the need to improve the defences of the nation and particularly its sea-going defences in response to foreign threats, industrialisation was developed by local clans through second hand knowledge, based mostly on Western textbooks, and copying Western examples, combined with traditional craft skills.
Detailed explanation-3: -Japan’s highly developed Edo-period education system was a key factor in its swift turn to industrialization and a capitalist economy after the Meiji Restoration, as well as its subsequent position as a major world power.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was the Meiji Restoration that finally abolished the strict class system and created a more free and democratic system that allowed the Japanese people to unleash their full potential. Under this new democratic system, Japan modernized and developed rapidly.