World History II

Chapter 21: Continuity and Change in East Asia
1400 to 1800

16: Mon, Oct 28, 2019

Please post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:

How did China and Japan cope with conflicting sources of political power in our period? Consider:

• China alternated between domestic and foreign dynasties from the Mongols on. How did it manage and justify the transfer of power from one to the other?
• Japan had effectively two authority structures simultanously in the imperial court and the shogunate. How are the two reconciled?

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