Assignment task:
After the Warring States era between 1467 and 1568, three strong military leaders unified Japan. Oda Nobunaga brought half of Japan under his rule, Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued consolidation, and Tokugawa Ieyasu brought all local daimyo (lords) under the administration of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603. · The Shogunate gave loyal regional daimyo rice lands close to the capital at Edo, while those who had not been supportive were given undeveloped lands at the northern and southern extremes of the islands. · The Shogun required that the daimyo visit Edo frequently. This facilitated the development of transportation infrastructure and commerce, particularly wholesale rice exchanges. · The shoguns were attracted to Confucianism because it emphasized the need for social hierarchy and obedience to a ruler of a centralized state. Schools were established to transform the warrior aristocracy into a literate bureaucratic ruling class. · Jesuits came to Japan in the late 1500's and had limited success converting daimyo, but did gain a significant number of peasant converts.