who brought horses to japan?
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Horses probably first came to Japan in the Kamakura Period (1184-1333), when warriors from Korea and China brought cavalry, but they might have arrived even earlier, from Mongolia.
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By 1858, America and Japan had commenced trade, and a U.S. consul took up residence in Japan's capital, Edo (now known as Tokyo).
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The feudal period of Japanese history was a time when powerful families (daimyo) and the military power of warlords (shogun), and their warriors, the samurai ruled Japan. The Yamato family remained as emperor, but their power was seriously reduced because the daimyo, shoguns, and samurai were so powerful.
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How did the United States get Japan to open trade? ... Perry presented Japan a letter from the president to open trade to Americans. Japan was awed by Perry's powerful ships and guns. In 1854, Perry returned to Japan with a treaty that Japan signed.
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The Emperor is both the head of state of Japan, and the head of the Shinto faith (originally). ... The Shogun was the defacto ruler of Japan, technically only superceeded by the Emperor (but as suggested earlier, in many cases the Emperor was purely a figurehead in a ceremonial role).
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Horses are an important part of Mongolian culture. ... Excessive hunting by people and the loss of grazing and watering sites to domestic animals like cattle and sheep lowered the horses' numbers dramatically. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several wild Przewalski's horses were caught and bred in captivity.
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The shogun maintained power over his large territory. The daimyo (a Japanese word meaning “great names”) were feudal landowners equivalent to medieval European lords. The daimyo commanded the samurai, a distinct class of swordsmen trained to be devoted to the shogun.
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The mule was well known to Homer in 800 BC Greece. He reported in the Iliad, the arrival of mules from Henetia in Asia Minor, where breeding them was a local specialty. Mules were also bred in Greece in Homer's time to be used as draft animals and in farming.
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According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus thought of building a great wooden horse (the horse being the emblem of Troy), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy. Under the leadership of Epeius, the Greeks built the wooden horse in three days.
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With Japan being a highly volcanic island, the Japanese have harnessed and perfected the art of onsen, or hot springs, for centuries. Traditionally, men and women would bathe together in the same facility, but it wasn't until the beginning of the Meiji Restoration when onsen began to segregate men and women.
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Samurai (侍, /ˈsæmʊraɪ/) were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the 12th century to their abolition in the 1870s. They were the well-paid retainers of the daimyo (the great feudal landholders).
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Horse stables can be found throughout the game world. The first is the Duelling Peaks Stable that you're likely to come across if you take the simple path to Kakariko Village during the Seek Out Impa Quest. At a stable you can register a horse so it becomes your companion.
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Donkeys were brought from Europe to the New World in the fifteenth century with the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus, and subsequently spread into Mexico. They first reached what is now the United States in the late seventeenth century.
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Buying and stealing are fairly self-explanatory. You can buy horses at stables (introduced to you as part of the Exit Pursued By a Bruised Ego mission early in Chapter 2) which are in all of the game's major towns and easily found on your map.
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People in the southwest began to acquire horses in the 16th century by trading or stealing them from Spanish colonists in New Mexico. As horse culture moved northward, the Comanche were among the first to commit to a fully mounted nomadic lifestyle.
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The Japanese colonized Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria and islands in the Pacific. After the defeats of China and Russia, Japan began conquering and colonizing East Asia to expand its power.
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Edo - Wikipedia was renamed Tokyo when the emperor and his entourage moved from Kyoto to Tokyo in 1868. ... Someone with better Japanese knowledge than I should confirm this but I think the Japanese characters for Tokyo mean eastern capital. The name was changed when the capital was moved eastward from Kyoto to Edo.