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1300's unity started to break down in Japan.
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1467, Civil War shattered Japan's fuedal system
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1467-1568, voilent era known as sengoku or ''warring states''
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Encounter of Europeans when shipwrecked Portugese saliors washed up on shore of Southern Japan
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Christian Monasteries arrived
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Oda Nobungaga defeated rivals and siezed imperial capital Kyoto
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Nobunaga's 3000 soldiers armed with muskets crushed an enemy force of similar calvary
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Nobunaga commited seppuku, ritual suicide, after one of his generals turned on him
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over and controled most of the country by combining brute force and shrewd political alliance
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Hideyoshi died and troops wihtdrew from Korea
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Ieyasu strongest diamyo defeated rival at Battle of Sekigahara
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European convert 300,000 Japanese to Christianity
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Edo went from small to largest city in the world
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Ieyusa dies, HIdeyoshi takes his place in line.
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Christaians were persecuted and banned
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Japan became Isolated
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HIdeyoshi invaded Korea, began long campain agianst Korea and MIng Chinese allies
