Matthew Perry didn't as much "bully" the japanese but as much as intimidated the japanese people. When he arrived at the port of japan, they could not believe their eyes.They had saw huge ships traveling without sails and weapons that showed the samurai class to be obsolete. After that display the japanese people had no choice but to accept the terms. The japanese economy changed drastically during the Meiji Period of japan.The emperor didn't like that the outside powers were getting all the power so he set in some laws that changed everything.Since the japanese were cut off from the world for so long, they didn't know how to moderenize so the emperor put in the educational system hoping to raise knowledge and national pride. After this the emperor took ideas from countries that he thought excelled in one aspect:from Germany, he took their military style and goverment polictics, from United States their schools and from Britian they took their naval strength and railroads. Archipelago means when a nation takes over a nation and whatever they do, the superior nation takes control of it.
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