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East Asia Periods 1-5

Created by mels59 on Apr 19, 2011

Last updated: 04/20/11 at 08:34 PM

• Social
  1914

  Slow to embrace/tolerate diversity and individualism High degree/variety of services Rise of feminism- suffrage Women went and worked- WWII Foot-binding outlawed

• Economical
  1914

  Modernization of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea Post-industrial/ high- tech Less affected by the global depression Need natural resources

• Intellectual
  1914

  Atomic Bombs Nuclear Weaponry militarism in Japan Computer, internet, biotechnology, etc.

• Political
  1914

  Decolinization from Europe Nominally democratic Tensions- China and West China and USSR split Birth of Chinese republic Japan; parliamentary capitalismf

• Religious
  1914

  Religious fundamentalism Western appreciation for science spread

• Economical
  1750

  Provide labor for plantations/mines meiji Restoration- quickly industrialized japan

• Intellectual
  1750

  British introduced opium to china Westernization of Japan -steam ships/railroads Communication Revolution

• Political
  1750

  Abdication of Qing unification of China Fight for control with Mao Japan: abolishes feudalism, Civil code, regional govs. Nationalism= huge force

• Religious
  1750

  Scientific/ secular world becomes dominant

• Social
  1750

  Rigid Tokogawa society ended middle class gains power lower classes- horrible conditions, taxed a lot

• Social
  1450

  Foreigners allowed in China Manchus higher than Chinese Japan: hierarchy becomes unbreakable, samurai at top women- more freedom Obey upper or die

• Political
  1450

  Fall of Ming from internal/external- Manchu japan: Warring States Period to Tokogawa Shogunate Centralized Rule

• Religious
  1450

  New sects of Buddhism from China to Japan Neo- Confucianism increase

• Intellectual
  1450

  Gunpowder more prevailent Globalization of trade Japan: Kabuki theatre, and art forms borrowed from Korean culture

• Economical
  1450

  China: trade with Europeans in Qing Japan: Manufacturing. merchant class get wealth and power, urbanization, population growth

• Religious
  600 AD

  Buddhist missionaries Shinto Religion Influenced by Monotheistic religions Neo-Confucian thought

• Economic
  600 AD

  Paper money Credit/ Flying Money High taxes cause peasant revolts Serfs are bound to the land

• Political
  600 AD

  Japan borrowed from China Increased Bureaucracy Tributary System Constant threat from north Prince Shotoku then daimyos

• Intellectual
  600 AD

  Gunpowder for military Navigation/block printing Iron production Agriculture Technique... effects population... which effects cities Infrastructure advancements

• Social
  600 AD

  Code of Bushido- chivalry Women lost freedom in Japan

• Political
  Jan 1, 8000 BC to Jan 1, 600 BC

  Dynasties with emperors, mandate of heaven, start of bureaucracy

• Religion
  8000 BC

  Polytheism, animism, ancestor worship, Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism. Also spread of Buddhism from India.

• Economic
  Jan 1, 8000 BC

  Lots of money flowing in from th Silk Road, otherwise Agricultural

• Social
  8000 BC

  Pattriarchal, Confucian principals, women only had power in court. Order: Scholars/ Officials, military, artisans. Few lived in cities.

• Intellectual
  8000 BC

  Iron Age, Modernized Army, paper, accurate sundials/ calendars, agricultural improvements, brush painting, palaces.