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In this lesson, students will explore Japanese society during the late Tokugawa period, focusing on its rigid social hierarchy, economic challenges, and growing dissatisfaction among various social classes.
They will then analyse the impact of the end of sakoku (Japan’s isolationist policy), particularly how the arrival of Western powers and the signing of unequal treaties exposed Japan to external pressures and sparked internal debate.
The lesson will also assess how internal tensions—such as samurai unrest and economic discontent—and foreign intrusions combined to undermine the authority of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Finally, students will evaluate how the fall of the shogunate paved the way for the Meiji Restoration, marking a transformative shift toward modernisation and centralised imperial rule.
Students will understand the social, political, and foreign factors that led to the end of Tokugawa rule and the beginning of a new era in Japanese history.
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
- Understand the state of Japanese society in the late Tokugawa period;
- Analyse the impact of the end of sakoku on Japan;
- Assess how internal tensions and foreign intrusions led to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate; and
- Evaluate how the end of the shogunate gave way to Meiji Restoration.
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