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Jan 1, 1300
Setting the Stage
1300's unity started to break down in Japan. -
Jan 1, 1467
Fuedal System
1467, Civil War shattered Japan's fuedal system -
Period: Feb 17, 1467 to Feb 17, 1568
Sengoku
1467-1568, voilent era known as sengoku or ''warring states'' -
Feb 22, 1543
Europeans
Encounter of Europeans when shipwrecked Portugese saliors washed up on shore of Southern Japan -
Feb 22, 1549
Christian Monasteries
Christian Monasteries arrived -
Jan 1, 1568
Oda Nobungaga
Oda Nobungaga defeated rivals and siezed imperial capital Kyoto -
Feb 17, 1575
3000 Soldiers
Nobunaga's 3000 soldiers armed with muskets crushed an enemy force of similar calvary -
Feb 17, 1582
Suicide
Nobunaga commited seppuku, ritual suicide, after one of his generals turned on him -
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over and controled most of the country by combining brute force and shrewd political alliance -
Withdrew
Hideyoshi died and troops wihtdrew from Korea -
Strongest Diamyo
Ieyasu strongest diamyo defeated rival at Battle of Sekigahara -
Convert
European convert 300,000 Japanese to Christianity -
Period: to
Edo
Edo went from small to largest city in the world -
Ieyusa dies
Ieyusa dies, HIdeyoshi takes his place in line. -
persecuted
Christaians were persecuted and banned -
Isolation
Japan became Isolated -
Invasion
HIdeyoshi invaded Korea, began long campain agianst Korea and MIng Chinese allies
