Lacked status and poor conditions--Tokugawa Japan was a feudal system where commoners were unable to work up or gain status in the country.
Tokugawa Japan was a period of military rule in Japan where land owners and samurai had power and control in the country. Peasants and merchants were taxed heavily and were unable to work up in the system.
Merchants were particularly attacked during the Tokugawa rule as they represented western culture and influence. The shogun isolated Japan and close the borders so western influence could not change the Japanese system. This would stay this way until the 1800s when Japan would bring in a new government which would be merchant-focused.
He is better known as one of the greatest inventors of the United States of America. His invention change the economy of an entire nation. He brought the rise of cotton industry as an engine of economic growth in the Southern States. He began to practice a concept which was ahead of his time. The idea which would change the manufacturing sector of the United States and the world. He is best remembered as an inventor rather than a tycoon. He was Eli Whitney, the man who invented the cotton gin and thought of the idea of interchangeable parts.\
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1 The ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ is the name used by Sir Percy Blakeney, an Englishman who uses many clever disguises (=ways of changing your clothes and appearance so that people do not recognize you) in order to help French people from a high social class to escape from France, and from the possibility of having their heads cut off by the guillotine during the French Revolution. There is a well-known short poem about him, which begins with the words ‘They seek him here, they seek him there...’, and is about how difficult it is to find the Scarlet Pimpernel.
2. Marguerite considers her betrayal of the Scarlet Pimpernel truly “base” and feels she must atone for her sin.
