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1590: Riemon Soga learns Western methods of 1600-1799
copper refining and establishes a smelting
C
h business in Kyoto (later Sumitomo) 1600: At the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieya-
a su, a friend of Hideyoshi and Nobunaga, de-
p
t 1590: Edo becomes the center of the nation-wide feats the other contenders to the leadership of
e military government that would later establish
r Japan
Tokyo
1603: The emperor appoints Ieyasu as shogun,
1591: Toyotomi Hideyoshi reunifies and pacifies who moves his government to Edo (Tokyo)
Japan and founds the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns
1591: The Jesuits establish the first printing press in 1603: The Tokugawa Shogunate divides the sub-
Japan jects into five hereditary classes of decreasing

1592: Toyotomi Hideyoshi tries to conquer Korea importance (lords, samurai, farmers, artisans,
but is repelled by China merchants)
1598: Hideyoshi dies after trying a second time to 1614: Ieyasu bans Christianity from Japan
invade Korea 1615: Ieyasu captures Osaka and destroys the
Toyotomi clan

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