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  1. Jul 2019
    1. succour

      assistance and support in times of hardship and distress

    1. Japan also saw the rise of a powerful military and political entity in the seventeenth century.

      The Japanese samurai were always a very interesting topic to me.

    2. growth in world population

      personally, this was a big mistake

    3. Part of this political system entailed the brutal suppression of Christianity, the expulsion of all Europeans from Japan save for a handful of Dutch, and a prohibition on all Japanese travel abroad. These “closed country edicts” would remain in force until the coming of the Americans with the mission of Matthew Perry in 1853 — 1854.

      by being a closed country Japan was able to build from the inside and kept the people in line. their economy boomed and there was stability and peace.

    4. Japan also saw the rise of a powerful military and political entity in the seventeenth century.

      Its always so surprising to me how powerful Japan once was considering how small of a country they are.

    1. lunar]

      What is the significance of counting lunar years?

    2. most widely traveled man in the ancient world

      the significance of Ibn Buttuta