Unit 3

From Isolation to Adaptation

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 14 Overview

At the end of Chapter 14, you should be able to answer the following questions.


  1. In what ways might a country’s choice to remain isolated both reflect its worldview and result from its worldview?
  2. Why and how did Japan isolate itself from the remainder of the world?
  3. In what ways did isolation lead to political, economic, and social changes in Japanese society?
  4. How did isolation contribute to the end of Japan’s closed, feudal society?
Chapter 14 of the textbook, Worldviews: Contact and Change.