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a0266361136 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The Meiji Restoration was led by a powerful reformers who passed which of the following edicts?

a. daimyo domains were replaced by government prefectures.
b. centralized taxation was established.
c. a national army was created and trained by officers with experience in modern warfare.
d. all distinctions between samurai and commoners were eliminated.
e. all of the answers are correct.

Question 2

The 1858 treaty between the Tokugawa government and foreign nations

a. opened up unlimited trade with the West.
b. created an exchange of official ambassadors.
c. gave rights of extraterritoriality to the West.
d. resulted in the daimyo's overthrow of the Meiji dynasty.
e. established foreign military bases in Japan.