Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Source B: Tokugawa
Period Economy and
Society
- Samurai
- Highest Class
- No engaging in trade or farming
- Hard to profit from jobs
- Grew poor
- owed a lot of
money to
merchants
- paid in rice to trade
for money
- Samurai & daimyo
relocating to castle towns
- rapid urbanisation
- create urban structures
(buildings, roads, etc.)
- added jobs such as
labourers and
businesses
- lower classes gained money
- farmers
- more land for agriculture
- food production grew
- artisans
- skilled labour to create
new urban structures
- merchants
- economic growth
- sold items to samurai
and commoners