Comprehension Questions: 1. Prior to the Meiji Period, Japan was
O completely isolated from foreign
contact
O rule by the Qing Dynasty in China
O organized as a feudal society
Oled by Prince Mutsuhito

answer; people where able to travel across the u.s.a faster than any other mode of transportation,travel time was about a week,from coast to coast

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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