Extra Credit...

10th AP

Two great Eurasian cities emerged between 1500 and 1800.  St. Petersburg was founded on the Baltic Sea by Peter the Great to serve as his new capital city.  Edo, modern-day Tokyo, was built by the early shoguns of the Tokugawa Shogunate.  Each city in many ways reflected the ideas and goals of the regime that governed from it.  Keep this notion in mind as you tour each city virtually.  You might want to review The Triumph of the Russian Empire on pages 551-554 and Decentralization and Innovation in Tokugawa Japan to 1800 on pages 563-567 in Bulliet, et al., The Earth and Its Peoples (Second Edition) to familiarize yourself with the views and goals of Peter the Great and his successors and those of the Tokugawa shoguns.

First, go to St. Petersburg: The City and click on "The Short Illustrated History of St. Petersburg.  Read through this site until you reach the link "St. Petersburg on the road to capitalism (1840's-1895)."  Next, return to St. Petersburg: The City and take the virtual tour, paying close attention to the structures that were built during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  How did St. Petersburg reflect Peter the Great's attitude toward the West and his strengthening of the monarchy at the expense of the aristocracy?  How did the city represent his and his successor's desire to maintain an autocracy in Russia?

Now go to Welcome to Edo!  Follow the instructions and complete the tour of eighteenth-century Edo.  The site is extensive but well worth the time it will take to view all that it offers.  How did Edo reflect the political goals of the Tokugawa Shogunate?  In what ways did eighteenth-century Edo represent the altered status of the daimyo and samurai that the Tokugawa shoguns instituted?  Which of the Shogunate's policies in particular encouraged the innovations in manufacturing and commercial institutions that you witnessed at this site?   What other observations can you make about the policies and goals of the Tokugawa Shogunate after touring Edo?

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