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Compare And Contrast The Qing Dynasty And Tokugawa Shogunate

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The Qing dynasty and the Tokugawa Shogunate were very much alike in terms of growth and expansion. The Qing Dynasty gained and maintained power in China thanks to Nurhachi, a chieftain who unified the tribes of the northeast of China into a single people, the Manchu. While the Tokugawa did so by taking control over the daimyo which were part of the warrior upper-class. This success on the domination of the daimyo was all thanks to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated several powerful daimyo in battle and force some daimyo to pledge loyalty to him. He also weakened them by reducing the size of their territories and preventing peasants from becoming warriors. Tokugawa Ieyasu on the other hand defeated rival daimyo and demonstrated that he could expand or reduce the size of their territory in the future. Shortly after he established the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603 under Tokugawa rule. In addition, Leyasu also prohibited the daimyo from making alliances with one another and even forced daimyo to spend every other year in Edo, the shogun's capital. When they returned to their domains after the year in Edo, they were forced to leave their families in Edo as hostages. …show more content…

Samurai stood at the top of Japanese social order and made up about 7 to 10 percent of the population during the Tokugawa Shogunate. Shoguns built schools for children of samurai to prepare them for their peacetime roles as government officials, but they were required to live in the castle towns of their daimyo and they received a salary, giving the shoguns greater control of the

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