central and east asia by: matthew katz, aidan hart, and andrew wallen

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PERIOD 1 PREHISTORY TO 600 CE

THEME 1: INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

THEME 2: DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTION OF CULTURES

THEME 3: STATE-BUILDING, EXPANSION, AND CONFLICT

THEME 4: CREATION, EXPANSION, AND INTERACTION OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• Agricultural Society• Trade

– Luxury items– Foodstuffs– Copper

• Merchants– Important– Confucian dislike

• Technological Advancement– Exceeded Europe

Japan– Strong Agriculture

THEME 5: DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES

PERIOD 2600 CE – 1450 CE

THEME 1- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Cities Boom!

• Golden Age

• Scholar-Gentry Art

• Buddhism and Art

THEME 2- DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTION OF CULTURES

China Religion

Buddhism suppressed Junks Inventions

Japan Buddhism Heian Court

Korea Sinification Buddhism over Hinduism

Vietnam Nuclear Family

Mongols Take over the World Left culture in place

THEME 3- STATE BUILDING, EXPANSION, CONFLICT

• China• Dynasty• Zhou• Centralized

• Qin• Han• Bureaucracy• Grand Canal

• Mongol intervention• No more bureaucracy

• Stopped expansion• Japan

• Cultural unity• Gempei Wars

• Korea• Allied with Tang• Aristocrats

• Vietnam• Drive South

THEME 4 - INTERACTION OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• China• Granaries• Rice• Paper money• Grand Canal

• Japan• Daimyos• Guilds

• Korea• Aristocrats

• Mongols• Economic policy towards peasants• Rising taxes

THEME 5 - DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES

CHINA

• Aristocrats power reduced

• Military subordinate to scholar gentry.

• Neo-Confucian male dominance

• Men versatility valued

JAPAN

• Court Life

• Imperial Power

• Warrior Elite

• Commercial class

• Barbarism

Korea

• Aristocratic power

Mongols

• Mongols and Muslim allies on top

• Artisan classes

PERIOD 3 (1450-1750)

THEME 1- INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE ENVIORNMENT • Bubonic Plague• Guns and gun powder• New Ships• Compass

THEME 2 DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTION OF CULTURES • European tribute systems in Europe

• Spreadng faith

• Maritime Asia

• Chinese Retreat

THEME 3- STATE BUILDING, EXPANSION, CONQUEST

• Ming Dynasty

• Scholar-Gentry Revival

• Hongwu’s reforms

• Ming Decline

Japan

• Reunification

• Isolation

THEME 4 – INTERACTION OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

• Asian Trading world

• Asian sea trading network

• Economic Growth

• Zheng He expeditions

THEME 5- DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL

STRUCTURES. • Scholar Gentry Returns To

dominance

• Men and elders flourish

• Women confined

• Imperial women influential

PERIOD 4 (1750-1900)

• GROWING INDUSTRIALIZATION BRINGS NEW INVENTIONS

• Increase in steel production.• Industrialization leads to modern inventions

THEME 2- INTERACTION OF CULTURES

Japan

• Western Superiority

• Copy cat west

• Dependent on West

China

• Trade

THEME 3- STATE BUILDING, CONFLICT, EXPANSION

JAPAN

• Shogunate declines• not all bad • 1868

• Meiji

China

• Rise and fall of Qing

• Bureaucracy breaks down

• Opium wars

• Rebellions

THEME 4- ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Japan

• Industrialization

China

• Trade with the West

• Manchu

THEME 5- SOCIAL ORDER

Japan

• Samurai class abolished

• West• adopted

• Family life

• Population growth

China

• Qing keep Ming Social Order

• Compradors

PERIOD 5- 1900 CE- PRESENT

• Shintoism in Japan•Abolished• Western elements added

to culture• Art for protest• Taiwan more western

• Political parties in Japan• Japanese nationalism• China Guomindang• Japan militarization• Nuclear bombs WWII• After WWII

– People’s Democratic Republic of Korea– Republic of Korea– China communist– Taiwan nationalist– Japan selective westernization– Cultural Revolution

• Japan– Zaibatsus– Labor Unions– “Japan Incorporated”

• Korean textiles• Taiwan education• Pacific Rim

– Western industrial model• China

– Mass Line– Great Leap Forward– Capitalism

Japan Woman vote Increased social groups Population growth slowed Group loyalty

China Technocrat class Women’s rights