... to China to develop good relations and to bring back Chinese literature and philosophy. This adaptation of Chinese culture continued uninterrupted through the 18th century, helping guide Japan to further development and growth. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a variety of social and economic causes brought the downfall of the Han dynasty. For nearly two hundred years, the country was not ... Like the Chinese, the Japanese welcomed contact with the west. Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns (1603), cultivated foreigners who taught the Japanese western skills such as gun making...

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