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Exercise
Learning pathways LEVEL1 1, 2, 3
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REMEMBER AND UNDERSTAND 1. Explain what was the ‘rice tax’. A. The rice tax was a tax paid by peasants calculated on how much rice they consumed. B. The rice tax was a tax paid by peasants who farmed the land to the daimȳo nobles who owned the land. C. The rice tax was a tax paid by daimȳo nobles to the sh̄ogun. D. The rice tax was a tax paid by the daimȳo nobles to the peasants who farmed the land. 2. Explain what factors may have contributed to the rapid increase in population during the early years of the Tokugawa sh̄ogunate. A. The peaceful time in history B. The availability of additional food C. Large-scale water projects D. Immigrants from France and Portugal 3. In 1570, before the Tokugawa period, the population of Japan was only about ________ million. While the population was small, the available forests were able to supply all the ________ needed. 4. Explain why deforestation became a serious problem in Japan. 5. Identify the ways in which the harvesting of timber was restricted by the sh̄ogun and many of the daimȳo after 1670. ANALYSE AND APPLY 6. Compare the period 1600–1720 with the period from 1720 to 1874 in SOURCE1 . Explain what you notice about the second period when compared with the first. 7. Examine SOURCE2 . Explain how it was possible to expand the area of land under cultivation in a mountainous country such as Japan. 8. Analyse SOURCE3 . a. Explain how the construction of large numbers of houses, such as that in SOURCE3 , might have contributed to the deforestation problem. b. Identify a major risk if large numbers of these houses were built close together in a village or town. 9. Explain how the new building techniques demonstrated in SOURCE4 were able to contribute to solving the deforestation problem. EVALUATE AND COMMUNICATE 10. Evaluate whether it would have been likely for the sh̄ogunate to intervene in forestry practices across Japan if the deforestation problem had not become so severe. Give reasons for your response. Answers and sample responses for this topic are available online.
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