Round 6: Tossup 8

This government’s rigid, four-tier class structure was the last in its country to give upper classes a “right to strike” lower ones. This government learned of strategic cannon fire from its English advisor William Adams. This government is sometimes named for a city where its nobles were forced to reside every other year. (10[1])For two centuries, this government allowed a single port on Dejima (10[1]-5[1])Island (10[1])for the import of “Dutch learning.” (-5[1])This government was visited by Matthew Perry’s “black ships.” This government, whose loyalists lost the Boshin War, enacted isolationist policies called sakoku. For 10 points, Ieyasu (“ee-ay-AH-soo”) was the founder of what shogunate (10[1])that ended with the Meiji Restoration? (10[1])■END■

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