Shogun Japan

late 1500s Japan is unified under new Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese fuedal system is established

Urbanism sweeps through Japan

Slightly open doors to outside world

golden age for Japanese culture and art

Took over mid 1300s after the Yuan until mid 1600s

Get Rich or Die Trying Empire (opened up trade and exports in huge way)

one of most stable, but also one of most autocratic dynasties

Major emphasis on conservative values of Confucianism especially civil service examination

Builders of the majority of today's great wall (for obvious reasons)

Population skyrocketed in China

final dynasty of China

mid 1600s to early 1900s

ruled by Manchu (ethnic minority invaders from northern region of China)

forced Han Chinese to adopt their cultural norms such as hairstyle and clothing

sort of a hijacked dynasty and overall not very successful