The Fall Of Tokugawa
The Downfall of Tokugawa Shogunate
By: Luke Hirshman
- Debt/Burden of the draft and military (too many foreign wars)
- Decline in trade
- Environmental issues (drought, poor crop yields, disease, natural disaster)
- Internal/External challenges to power
- Geographic and political overextension
- Class revolt
- Poor leadership
- Outside pressures and threats (competition)
By: Luke Hirshman