CENTRAL AND EAST ASIA BY: MATTHEW KATZ, AIDAN HART, AND ANDREW WALLEN

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 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 ( )

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 ( )

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 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