In order to prevent any serious challenges to the samurai class’s military role, the Tokugawa:
granting them free access to peasants.
b. Prohibited samurai from depending too much on swordsmanship by requiring that they also practice with pistols and rifles.
c. Gave up firearms, ordering that they be seized and destroyed except for a few museum relics.
d. Prohibited the samurai from attacking merchants or peasant farmers in order to keep the tax base high.
c. Gave up firearms, ordering that they be seized and destroyed except for a few museum relics.
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