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Empires ., The social structure of Tokugawa Shogunate resembled…
Empires .
ADITA DAS Band: F
My own very simple definition- Group of territories or a group of people under one ruler such as an emperor. Empire can also mean the territory or land being governed by one ruler and the types of people living there itself.
Political marriage to gain power without fighting, it saves more resources and needs from the people and economy
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The social structure of Tokugawa Shogunate resembled that of a medieval Europe. At the top of the social pyramid was the Emperor even though he didn't really hold that much power. the shogun was the de facto head of state.The shogun ruled over many feudal lords called daimyo who ruled over small domains known as han. Daimyo had been existed in Japan even before the first shogunate was established. There were about 250 domains thoughout the Tokugawa history. the domains were ranked by the amount of rice they could produce per year and not their land size or wealth,etc which is so much more different than other empires and such. It shows how much rice was important to Japan. Tge daimyo paid taxed to the shogun in rice too.
By 1600 Japan was back together as Tokugaka Ieyasu. The Tokugawa clan in Edo also was able to maintain a stable and feudal relsationship with the local daimyo.
-A Shogunate was essentially a military government in which a family of military lords, or Shoguns, ruled Japan . -The first Shogunate was founded in as early as 1192 when local governments along with their samurai or private warriors.-The Ashikaga Shogunate was founded in 1336 after it overtrhew the Kamakura Shougnate. However, unlike the Kamkura, the Ashikaga was unagle to keep the local lords, daimyo under control. This problem grew until Japan became divided into many local clans fighting for their own. This period was called the Sengoku period.
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The Ashanti Empire had a large belief system. Belief such as granting children the happiest life would be very important for the continuation and expanding of their culture. These factors helped people physiologically and without realization. A person who would be treated very nicely in their childhood by their controller wouldn't go against the idea of their authorizers as their realities would only prove of how they owe their controller instead. This is very similar to how the Tokugawa Shogunate maintained their power by ending any foreign contact as the people only were able to believe in their own reality
The Ashanti Empire enforced a lot of military power over the people summed with other factors that helped the people of those regions unite together. For example, the Ashanti people had a common enemy called the Denkyira and the Okyo clan used that situation and military power to put all the smaller states together. This made the Empire stronger and wider as there were more allied states added to the confederacy
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The okyo clan was able to unite all the other states together in a confederacy with military power and because of the believes of many of the Ashanti people being against the Denkiyra. This reminds me of how the Manchus were able to establish control. These happenings are very different but the ideas are similar to me on how the Manchus were able to prove their control by setting the previous falling empire as an example and by using divine justification
The Qing were able to justify and maintain their power by justifying their establishment of the Empire through God's will, by enforcing codes of laws that opposed the rule of the previous failing empire and by getting rid of destructible ideas that were key factors to why the previous empire declined.
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They ordered the people to do many things that proved the wrong things their previous rulers did. And then they fixed the economy and the Empire by setting up laws, focusing on tax reduction, focusing on things like agriculture that were destroyed by war or due to immense amount of tax. This proved their rule even more and automatically let them continue the Empire for longer.
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The Daimyo themselves were divided and ha d a social structure. The highest class of daimyo were the shinpan who were relatives of the Tokugawa family ruling over large domains. The second class was Fudai. It came into existence when Tokugawa Ieyasu rewarded his vassal and allies by making them daimyo after unifyng Japan. Lastly there was the tozama daymyo who owned the largest domains but had little political power. Most of them were warlords who surrended to Tokugawa during his unifaction of Japan.
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Rulers ruling by themselves without other interpretations of power in the Empire where as there are other rulers like in the Tokugawa Shogunate were their power was never needed or used, almost useless.