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ENHS APWH E.Asia
ENHS APWH E.Asia (China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam)
Term | Definition |
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Politics 8000 BCE-600CE | Dynasties with emperors- mandate of heaven Start of bureaucracy/meritocracy |
Politics 600-1450 CE | Japan borrowed from China Increased bureaucracy Tributary system Constant threat from North Prince Shotoku then daimyos |
Politics 1450-1750 CE | Fall of Ming from internal/external - Manchu Japan: Warring States Period to Tokogawa Shogunate Centralized rule |
Politics 1750-1900 CE | Abdication of Qing, unification of China Fight for control with Mao Japan: abolishes feudalism, Civil code, regional govs Nationalism = huge force |
Politics 1900-present | Decolonization from Europe Nominally democratic Tensions- China and West USSR/China split Birth of Chinese Republic Japan: parliamentary capitalism |
Economy 8000 BCE-600CE | Lots of money flowing in from Silk Roads Otherwise agricultural |
Economy 600-1450 CE | Paper money Credit or “flying money” High taxes cause peasant revolts Serfs bound to land |
Economy 1450-1750 CE | China: trade with Europeans in Qing Japan: manufacturing, merchant class get wealth and power , urbanization, population growth |
Economy 1750-1900 CE | Provide labor for plantations/mines Meiji Restoration- quickly industrialized in Japan |
Economy 1900-present | Modernization of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea Post- industrial/high-tech Less affected by global depression Need natural resources |
Social Class/Gender 8000 BCE-600CE | Patriarchal Confucian principles Women only power in court Scholars/officials military artisans Few live in cities |
Social Class/Gender 600-1450 CE | Code of Bushido- chivalry Women lost freedom in Japan |
Social Class/Gender 1450-1750 CE | Foreigners allowed in China Manchus higher than Chinese Japan: hierarchy becomes unbreakable, samurai at top lower class women more free – upper obey or die |
Social Class/Gender 1750-1900 CE | Rigid Tokugawa hierarchy ended Middle class grows power Lower classes- horrible conditions, taxed a lot |
Social Class/Gender 1900-present | Slow to embrace/tolerate diversity and individualism High degree/variety social services Rise of feminism- suffrage Women went worked WWII Foot binding outlawed |
Science/Inventions 8000 BCE-600CE | Iron Age Modernized army Paper, accurate sundials/calendars, agriculture improvements (plow) |
Science/Inventions 600-1450 CE | Gunpowder for military Boasts = junks Navigation/block printing Iron production Agriculture technique population cities |
Science/Inventions 1450-1750 CE | Gunpowder more prevalent Globalization of trade |
Science/Inventions 1750-1900 CE | British introduced opium to China Westernization of Japan - steamships/railroads Communication revolution |
Science/Inventions 1900-present | Atomic bombs Nuclear weaponry Militarism in Japan Computer, internet, biotechnology and genetic science |
Art/Architecture 8000 BCE-600CE | Brush painting Palaces |
Art/Architecture 600-1450 CE | Infrastructure (roads, inns, postal stations) Japan: haiku, pencil sketches, ink sketches, Noh drama, tea ceremony |
Art/Architecture 1450-1750 CE | Japan: kabuki theatre replaces restrained drama, Woodblock prints = art form, borrowed Korean ceramics and western oil painting |
Art/Architecture 1750-1900 CE | Artistic styles change more rapidly and radically than ever before |
Art/Architecture 1900-present | Theme for lit- resisting US New style= cubism Movie industry Use of concrete and glass New skepticism |
Empire 8000 BCE-600CE | Collapse of empires in China from internal problems – economic depression, natural catastrophe, social unrest |
Empire 600-1450 CE | Mongol empires – conquer China, but fail in Japan --> replaced by Ottoman Turks and Ju Yuanzahng of Ming dynasty |
Empire 1450-1750 CE | Japan empire centralized Fall of the Manchu empire Interaction with west = China – relatively isolated, Japan- periods of isolation and acceptance |
Empire 1750-1900 CE | The fall of China – opium wars, internal rebellions, external lasses, Boxer Rebellion Japanese imperialism- Taiwan, Korea, Russia |
Empire 1900-present | Japan- WWII- invades Manchuria, China, Siberia – taking over Southeast Asia, Bomb Pearl Harbor – brings US into war atomic bomb --> US occupies Japan |
Religion 8000 BCE-600CE | Polytheism, animism ancestor worship Confucianism, Legalism Daoism, also spread of Buddhism from India |
Religion 600-1450 CE | Buddhist missionaries Shinto religion Influenced by monotheistic religions Neo- Confucian thought |
Religion 1450-1750 CE | New sects of Buddhism from China to Japan Neo- Confucianism increase (ethnocentric, historicism, rationalism) |
Religion 1750-1900 CE | Scientific/secular world becomes dominant |
Religion 1900-present | Religious fundamentalism Western appreciation for science spread |