The event in Japanese history that is a direct result of the Japanese government signing this treaty is the Fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The fall of the Tokugawa was contributed to a number of direct reasons and indirect reasons; the direct reasons was his inability to deal with the threat of foreign colonial powers, and signing humiliating trade treaties against the will of the nationalist aristocrats and the emperor. Indirect reasons included centuries long grievances from warlords who lost their power under him economic stagnation turning into depression, and development and spread of popular nationalistic, modernist philosophy among the upper classes.
Answer:
• Detroit lost a quarter of its people and had its lowest population count since 1920.
• Nine of Ohio’s 10 largest cities lost population, with Cleveland leading the decline with the loss of more than 80,000 people.
• Among U.S. cities with 100,000 or more residents in 2000, 42 lost population. Close to half of those cities (18) are in the Midwest. Eleven of the 20 U.S. cities undergoing the sharpest population declines are from four states in this region — Illinois (one), Indiana (two), Michigan (three) and Ohio (five).
Explanation:
Answer:
Explanation:
The Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to develop economically and maintain its social and political stability. The arrival of Europeans on the West African Coast and their establishment of slave ports in various parts of the continent triggered a continuous process of exploitation of Africa's human resources, labor, and commodities. This exploitative commerce influenced the African political and religious aristocracies, the warrior classes and the biracial elite, who made small gains from the slave trade, to participate in the oppression of their own people. The Europeans, on the other hand, greatly benefited from the Atlantic trade, since it allowed them to amass the raw materials that fed the Industrial Revolution to the detriment of African societies whose capacity to transform their modes of production into a viable entrepreneurial economy was severely halted.
D. Learning from the ottoman way of waging war and conquering vast territory