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Who established the Kamakura shogunate?

  • Minamoto no Yoritomo

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu

  • Oda Nobunaga

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Answer

Minamoto no Yoritomo, a renowned military leader, established the Kamakura shogunate in 1192. This marked a significant shift in Japanese history, as it established a feudal military government that would rule Japan for over a century. Yoritomo's shogunate centralized power under the military and laid the foundation for the samurai class to become the dominant force in Japanese society.
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