Why of all of the states and peoples of Asia were the Chinese and Japanese able to both fend off the expansion-minded
European intruders and consolidate their centralized
political systems and rise to even higher levels of economic
productivity and cultural development?

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Why were the Chinese and Japanese able to fend off the expansion-minded European intruders and consolidate their empires compared to the other states and peoples of Asia? Japan was a warrior-dominated state, and under leaders during the Tokugawa, was militarily forceful.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion