Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire DVD
Episode II
Shoguns Bringing Unity & Peace to Japan:
Hideyoshi  Ieyasu  Iemitsu
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Who held a European monopoly on trade with Japan, before Adams, an Englishman, arrived in 1600?
What did Tokugawa Ieyasu ask of Adams?
Why were Catholics from Portugal and Spain expelled from Japan?
What Dutch Company did Adams work for and what rights did he try to gain for them?
When did Tokugawa Ieyasu gain the office of Shogun? How did he bring peace?
How did the Tokugawa Shogun control the formerly warring Daimyos?
Who was at the bottom of the feudal Japanese social class system?
What kinds of observations did the shipwrecked Spanish governor make about Edo-period Japan and
Tokugawa Ieyasu?
9. Now that Japan was at peace, Iemitsu could not reward Daimyo with booty for their loyalty. What
system was used, instead?
10. Explain the system of Alternate Attendance.
11. During the 1600s, samurai in Japan went from being warriors to what?
12. In what ways and WHY were Christians persecuted during the reign of Shogun Iemitsu?
13. What was the life of a farmer like? What are some examples of taxes they paid, and in what form?
14. Finally, in the Shimabara Penninsula, what happened? How did it spread? What was the final outcome?
15. What very dramatic action did the Shogun take after the events in Shimabara?
To complete if you were absent, search
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire DVD
 that title in youtube.com
Episode II
Shoguns Bringing Unity & Peace to Japan:
Hideyoshi  Ieyasu  Iemitsu
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Who held a European monopoly on trade with Japan, before Adams, an Englishman, arrived in 1600?
What did Tokugawa Ieyasu ask of Adams?
Why were Catholics from Portugal and Spain expelled from Japan?
What Dutch Company did Adams work for and what rights did he try to gain for them?
When did Tokugawa Ieyasu gain the office of Shogun? How did he bring peace?
How did the Tokugawa Shogun control the formerly warring Daimyos?
Who was at the bottom of the feudal Japanese social class system?
What kinds of observations did the shipwrecked Spanish governor make about Edo-period Japan and
Tokugawa Ieyasu?
9. Now that Japan was at peace, Iemitsu could not reward Daimyo with booty for their loyalty. What
system was used, instead?
10. Explain the system of Alternate Attendance.
11. During the 1600s, samurai in Japan went from being warriors to what?
12. In what ways and WHY were Christians persecuted during the reign of Shogun Iemitsu?
13. What was the life of a farmer like? What are some examples of taxes they paid, and in what form?
14. Finally, in the Shimabara Penninsula, what happened? How did it spread? What was the final outcome?
15. What very dramatic action did the Shogun take after the events in Shimabara?