30 POINTS!! Use the RACE strategy to answer this question: Why did the Tokugawa Shogunate want to close the borders to Japan? Use pages 161-162 in your Human Odyssey Textbook for the "C" portion of RACE.

byzantine empire is the answer i think you are looking for.

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march 8, 1917

explanation:

the lachish letters were written by hoshaiah, a military officer stationed possibly in mareshah,   and sent to yaush, possibly the commanding officer at lachish.

the series of letters were written in carbon ink in ancient hebrew on clay ostraca, shortly before lachish fell to the babylonian army of king nebuchadnezzar in 588/6 bc during the reign of zedekiah, king of judah.