Question

How did industrialization contribute to the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Answer 1

Answer:

Industrialization contributed to the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate by encouraging foreign nations to force Japan to open its markets to their industrial products, thus forcing the process known as Meiji Restoration.

Explanation:

The Tokugawa Shogunate was the feudal regime that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867. During this period, Japan closed almost completely, without any special contact with the outside world. Only Chinese and Dutch could enter Japan and only for strictly commercial purposes. Other Europeans who reached Japan's coasts were executed. In particular, the reason for the Japanese isolation was that the ruling shoguns considered Christian missionaries a destabilizing factor. Only when US Navy Captain Matthew C. Perry appeared in July 1853 with four ships in the port of Edo and demanded that Japan be opened for trade, this situation stopped. In the 200 years that have passed since the isolation, the Western world had, among other things, started an industrialization, and the Japanese could not do much against modern weapons. Japan was therefore opened without a fight.   The opening was a blow to the Tokugawa regime, which was facing its downfall. In 1866, the revolution called the Meiji Restoration began, which brought the shogunate to its end.