Round 4: 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 (-5[1])where its nobles were forced to reside (-5[1])every other year. (10[1])For two centuries, this government allowed a single (10[1])port on (10[1])Dejima Island (10[1])for the (10[1])import of “Dutch learning.” (10[1])This government was visited by Matthew Perry’s “black ships.” (-5[1])This government, (10[1])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? ■END■ (10[2])

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