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Question:how did they handle dealings with the west economically, religiously, socially, and others. were the similiar in some, or were they different?


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Economically, they both tried to connect into international. China happily went into international trade and nearly bankrupted the west by demanding silver in return. Japan opened itself up after closing itself for a few hundred years.

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