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The persecution of Christians was part of an attempt to control foreign ideas. When Europeans first arrived, no central authority existed to contain them. The strong leaders who later took power did not like the introduction of European ideas and ways, but they valued European trade.

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They first came with traders and the japanese accepted it and then there was an uprising and the japanese shogun saw that the christians were the core of this uprising and the brutally murdered them or sent them out of the country.

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Fascinating new technologies and ideas.

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The taste

Of rain

—Why kneel?

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In 1600, Ieyasu defeated his rivals at the Battle of Sekigahara. A small fishing village that would later become the city of Tokyo. ts population was more than one million.

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1. Emperor
2. Shogun
3. daimyo
4.samurai
5. peasants and artisans, Peasants made up 4/5 of the population.
6. Merchants