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Japan's Economy - Coggle Diagram
Japan's Economy
Rural Production
Better Food Production
Increase to Birth Rate
Rice Production Doubled
Crop Growth Boomed
Tea
Sugar
Cotton
Tobacco
Hemp
Higher Living Standard for Peasant
Allowed them to higher landless peasants to work
Towns, transport and trade
New roads were made
Transport of goods was a lot easier
Increased peasants and samurai travel
Edo became the largest city in the world with over 1 million people
Growth of Merchant Class
As new roads opened up merchants saw a chance to set up shops along side the roads
Land ownership became less important for wealth
Peasants went to cities to sell their excess produce