early modern times #31 Financial Woes
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sakoku
early modern times 
early modern times #27 Four Contact Points
Click here to go to the YouTube video Throughout the Edo period, Japan was in a state of “sakoku”, or seclusion, with it...
early modern times #26 SAKOKU -exclusionism of the Edo shogunate-
Click here to go to YouTube video In his masterpiece "Moby-Dick, or The Whale" the 19th-century American authorHerman Me...