Japan's many kingdoms and tribes gradually came to be unified under a centralized government, nominally controlled by the Emperor. This imperial dynasty continues to reign over Japan. In 794, a new imperial capital was established at Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto), marking the beginning of the Heian period, which lasted until 1185. The Heian period is considered a golden age of classical Japanese culture. Over the following centuries the power of the Emperor and the imperial court gradually declined and passed to the military clans and their armies of samurai warriors. The Minamoto clan under Minamoto no Yoritomo emerged victorious from the Genpei War of 1180–85. After seizing power, Yoritomo set up his capital in Kamakura and took the title of shōgun. In 1274 and 1281, the Kamakura shogunate withstood two Mongol invasions, but in 1333 it was toppled by a rival claimant to the shogunate, ushering in the Muromachi period. During the Muromachi period regional warlords called daimyōs grew in power at the expense of the shōgun. Eventually, Japan descended into a period of civil war. Over the course of the late sixteenth century, Japan was reunified under the leadership of the daimyō Oda Nobunaga and his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, Tokugawa Ieyasu came to power and was appointed shōgun by the Emperor. The Tokugawa shogunate, which governed from Edo (modern Tokyo), presided over a prosperous and peaceful era known as the Edo period (1600–1868 ). The Tokugawa shogunate imposed a strict class system on Japanese society and cut off almost all contact with the outside world. The American Perry Expedition in 1853–54 ended Japan's seclusion; this contributed to the fall of the shogunate and the return of power to the Emperor in 1868. The new national leadership of the following Meiji period transformed the isolated, feudal island country into an empire that closely followed Western models and became a great power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan From Emperor to Shogunate to Democracy. Traditional to Socialist to Free.
On the school grading system, the grades are: A B C D F D is passing C is average and F is fail. If you take the first two letters of each Time Period: E S D and combine them with their corresponding ways: T S F, you have ET, SS, DF E.T says So (W) da Fu*k?
Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor and musician. His breakout role is in Steven Spielberg's film E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas
