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In the 1500s, Japan had guns: good ones, and a lot of them. Within a couple of centuries, they had basically none. What happened?
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Podcast: The really big oneWhat can we learn from the Black Death?
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The Tokugawa shogunate all but squeezed Japanese gun manufacturing out of existence.
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Podcast: Putting the genie back in the barrelIn the 1500s, Japan had guns: good ones, and a lot of them. Within a couple of centuries, they had basically none. What happened?
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The samurai used guns, but they hated them. And not because they were pacifists.
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The first European guns arrived in Japan in the middle of a century of civil war. They were a hit.
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Three worlds collided when Columbus landed. The meeting of Africa and indigenous America played an enormous part.
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It’s easy to romanticize Palmares. But that can give you the wrong idea.
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