Civil War: Japan Reaction To America

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In Japan reaction to America compelling the issue of allowing trade a chance to come through and enabling the us to do as such, there was a short civil war. By 1868 if prompted the political takeover by a gathering of youthful samurai from southern Japan. Japan battled with Russia over region. China disintegrated under the western compulsion. Its whole government went to pieces from inside uprisings. The state became godless. The Ottoman empire was at that point coming up short, and the European powers just expected to little harm to devastate it. The diverse races turned into their own particular nations, no longer under Islamic

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