FEUDAL JAPAN AND THE WORLD

The impact of Portuguese merchants and missionaries on Japan

• the first Europeans to visit Japan
• The Portuguese from the south- Naban
• Portuguese influence on Japanese cartography
• influence on the art of Old Japan- Namban-byobu
• the introduction of fire-arms and cannon into Japan

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The Sakoku or ‘closed country’ system

• The isolation of Japan in the 1600s

Matthew Perry’s 1854 and 1855 visits to Japan

• Matthew Calbraith Perry
• Why did the United States sent him to Japan?
• Matthew Perry’s first visit
• Perry’s return to Japan in 1854
• the Treaty of Kanagawa

PRACTICAL ACTIVITY

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