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Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34

Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34

In the mid-nineteenth century, Japan transformed from an isolated, feudal state into a modern, empire-building nation-state...in a few short decades.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. How does John Green define nation-state?
  2. What were some internal and external factors that made the Shogunate government of Japan unstable by the mid-nineteenth century?
  3. What changes did the Japanese nationalist rebels bring to Japan once they removed the shogunate?
  4. What is the connection between Japanese nationalism, modernization, and empire?