Question

Why of all of the states and peoples of Asia were the Chinese

and Japanese able to both fend off the expansion-minded
European intruders and consolidate their centralized
political systems and rise to even higher levels of economic
productivity and cultural development?


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Answer 1

Why were the Chinese and Japanese able to fend off the expansion-minded European intruders and consolidate their empires compared to the other states and peoples of Asia? Japan was a warrior-dominated state, and under leaders during the Tokugawa, was militarily forceful.

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