The Meiji Restoration of Japan

The Meji era came after Commodore Matthew Perry came and started rough housing the Japanese. Matthew Perry came from the U.S.A and started making threats about bringing more ships. This is how Matthew Perry got a trading agreement with Japan. This caused the Japanese to realize that they had to modernize, or else they will be taken over. The Japanese economy changed for the better. The government realized that there was no money coming for everybody, so they decided to stop Feudalism and start having a economy that benefited everybody. Now, instead of the Nobles making all the money, the peasants and everybody else can make money. The Japanese made great changes in their technology as well. Japan made better schools, they made a better government, they increased in knowledge. This led to many ships, and weapons to be built easily. They made factories and this caused mass production. Japan is geologically called an archipelago. An Archipelago is a large group or chain of islands.