Tokugawa+Japan

=Tokugawa Japan=

=Assignment for Thursday:= =//Giving Up the Gun//=

=Assignment for Thursday in class after we watch the film:=
 * write short paragraph in which you answer the question: "Why did Japan successfully give up the gun? Was it because of geography (//Guns, Germs and Steel),// or did //Sakoku// come from something else?"
 * Post your answer on your page below

**Assignment for Friday November 8th:** was written or said
 * follow the link below below to create your Tokugawa page
 * find a primary source on the internet that decsribes some aspect of Tokugawa Japan, written either by a Japanese or foreign person who lived at that time
 * quote several sentences from the document on your page, identifying by whom, when, and where it
 * answer PROP for your document

Here are some links to source pages for your Tokugawa primary source quotation and commentary:

 * ====Asia for Educators - Columbia University (click on Tokugawa Shogunate)====
 * ====Wake Forest - World History (see several primary sources)====
 * ====Samurai Life in Medieval Japan (selected primary sources in text)====

=Primary Source pages:=
 * = Evelyn =
 * = Leo =
 * = Emma =
 * = Cherilynn =