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Question: How did Tokugawa shoguns react toward foreign traders!?
a) The Tokugawa welcomed the foreign traders!.

b) The Tokugawas imposed strict trade laws on the foreign traders!.

c) The Tokugawas barred all foreign traders!.

d) The Tokugawas decided to allow limited trade with foreign traders!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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d) is the best answer!. All foreigners were banned, except some Chinese and Dutch merchants!. As you see, the trade was quite limited!. Japan was cut off from the rest of the world during the Edo period or Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868)!. When the Emperor Meiji was restored in 1868, he opened Japan again!. a) is not true; b) is irrelevant here; c) is nearly true, but two nations were allowed to trade!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

b and d sound a lot alike to me!. The Tokugawa Shogunate imposed strict laws and severely restricted trade!. They took control of it and only allowed it in their own ports and only allowed what they permitted to be traded!.

Shogun Ieyasu built trade up and encouraged it to increase his clan's wealth and power, but by the1630s shogun Iemitsu had virtually cut Japan off from the outside world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

~e) They kowtowed to the Black Ships!.Www@QuestionHome@Com