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The imperial court estsblished at Nara
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the famine kills hundreds of thousands of people
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emperor Shirakawa abdicates and becomes a Buddhist monk, the first of the "cloistered emperors"
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yoritomo is shogun and japan is ruled by a millitary style goverment; the mongols invade japan
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japan is briefly under imperial rule
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japan comes in first contact with the Europeans
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portuguese traders come into japan
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japan has a shogunless period
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at the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu, a friend of Hideyoshi and Nobunaga, defeats the other contenders to the leadership of Japan
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japan closes there doors to the westerns
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Ieyasu bans Christianity from Japan
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the Heaian period begains- a time of cultural and artistic development
