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 (10[1])Adams. This government is sometimes named for a city where its nobles were forced to reside (10[1])every other year. (-5[1])For two centuries, this government allowed (-5[1])a single port on Dejima Island for the import of “Dutch learning.” (10[2])This government (10[1])was visited by Matthew (10[1])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 (10[1])of what shogunate that ended with the Meiji Restoration? ■END■ (10[1])

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