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