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civil war shattered Japan's old feudal system
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Powerful samurai seized control of old feudal estates
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the japanese first encountered Europeans when shipwrecked portugese saliors wased up on the shores of souhern Japan.
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christian missionaries began arribing in japan.
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Oda Nobunaga defeated his rivals and seized the imperial capital kyoto
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he committed seppuku, the ritual suicide of a samurai in 1582
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combinind brute force with shrewd political alliances, he controlled most of the country.
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Hideyoshi's strongest daimyo allies Tokugawa Ieyasu, completed the unification of Japan.
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the shogun had come to fear religious uprisings more
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ieyasu died in 1616, but repression of christianity continued off and on for the next two decades under his successors.
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Peasants shook the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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They had sealed Japan's borders and instituted a "closed country policy."
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Japan began to shift from a rural to an urban society
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Mastsuo Basho, the greatest hiaku poet, worte before his death
