What were the different challenges that the Chinese and Japanese faced during this period?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Challenges
1. China
a. ecological disaster—floods and famines in the 1630s
b. peasant rebellions, civil wars
c. conquest by Manchus
d. pressure for land reform
e. challenges to landowners
2. Japan
a. Christian missionaries convert many people
b. disenfranchisement of traditional warrior class (samurai)
c. need to maintain peace between shoguns and provincial rulers
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