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you fail...early japan was in isolation from the rest of the world and they kept it that way till the days of the great white fleet pulling up in its harbor. meaning in the foreign relations it dosent exist
but in domestic it was a fudel system not much more to say there very much simmilar to the fudel systems in early medevil times.
I agree. Read a motherfuckin book. Not a sports page, not a magazine, but a book, nigga. A fuckin book.
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Anonymous2007-09-25 19:48 ID:rggokWKv
Until 710? So you mean the Yamato?
Off the top off my head...
After it's unification, China's influence began to expand. Trade and it's technology transferred to other cultures, especially agricultural practices, military technology, maritime technology, horses which Japan did not have and Iron which Japan did not have in abundance. Japan's population subsequently grew and centralised into large towns allowing warlords to easily unify the tribes in large areas of land into clans. The clans subsequently swallowed up weaker neighbours and negotiated borders with those they could not forming counties. Once the borders stabilised the peaceful environment fermented the creation of a diplomatic forum so the new clans could negotiate with each other for mutual gain on a national scale. In it's early years the Yamato court was not the only diplomatic forum of this sort and the emperor did not have the same level of power over the clans as a 17th century shogun. Peace was a result of technological stagnation, after most of China's technology was transferred little new technology was developped to make borders unstable.
The Yamato court slowly began to tie the clans together through government, law, marriage, ideology, religion, bureaucracy, art, tradition and entertainment and use it's power to exert influence over the rest of Japan culminating in the Taika Reform which was an emulation of the Chinese court and it's confucian principles. The era between the formation of the clans and the Taika reform is called the Kofun period and lasted from around 250 AD to 650 AD. The Asuka era had already begun since technically by around 550 AD the Yamato court had control over all of Japan and peace and stability allowed the arts to flourish. It was during the Asuka era that Japan began to assert itself as a nation, before then clan leaders and the Emperor willingly sucked on the end of China's tiny yellow uncut dong as they wanted to look legitimate, after Japan was unified they declared their emperor a god and Japan on equal status with China despite China's huge size. Regardless of Japan's assertive behaviour there was still an era of close diplomatic and cultural exchange.
By 710 a national currency was in circulation, a capital had been established and the clan system had become a cemented aristocracy. Japan was a country.
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Anonymous2007-09-25 19:53 ID:rggokWKv
So it took them 300 years to go from a tribal system to a patchwork of clans and 150 years to turn into a national monarchy.
"Japan's population subsequently grew and centralised into large towns allowing warlords to easily unify the tribes in large areas of land into clans. The clans subsequently swallowed up weaker neighbours and negotiated borders with those they could not forming counties. Once the borders stabilised the peaceful environment fermented the creation of a diplomatic forum so the new clans could negotiate with each other for mutual gain on a national scale."