ANCIENT EAST ASIA
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ANCIENT EAST ASIA
“The more laws and ordnances promulgated
Then more thieves and robbers there are”
7k years
SHANG
1500 BCE
City-state
King, war
ZHOU
Zhou Part of Shang 1100 B.C.E.
KONG FUZI
• Junzi (gentlemen)
• Jen: virtue, culture
• Stability
LEGALISM
Strict laws
Enforcement
• Sun Tzu– Art of War
• Popular: 19th & 20th cent.
WARRING STATES
• Later Zhou
• 401-256 B.C.
• Consolidation
QIN (220-210 b.c.) Centralized Standards “China”
HAN (200 b.c.-200 a.d.)
• Order
• Authority– Ruler? – Women?
POP.
• +++
• 60 mil.
KOREA
• 30k
• 5,500 b.c.e
• Clan • Independent
BRONZE AGE
• 800-300 B.C.E
• Rice
• “walled towns”• Confederation
• Laws• Simple, severe
• murder, injury, theft
WOMEN
• Low
CULTURE
• Festivals
• Religion? • Egalitarian• Afterlife
THREE KINGDOMS
• Consolidation
• Centralized
CULTURE
• Poetry, Song• -instruments? 40
• Buildings
JAPAN
• 20k: S.E. Asia
• 10k b.c.: Jomon
EARLY LIFE• Imp. people = gods
• created world, life
• Burials• Jewelry
• Small regions
• Consolidation
• 5th cent:• Larger kingdoms
INFLUENCE?
• Nationalism: Chinese influence
• Refugees: 5-7 cent.• -Language, culture