central and east asia
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
CENTRAL AND EAST A
SIA
B Y : M A T T H E W K A T Z , A I D A N H A R T , A N D A N D R E W
WA L L E N
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 2600 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 valuedJAPAN• Court Life• Imperial Power• Warrior Elite • Commercial class• BarbarismKorea• Aristocratic powerMongols• Mongols and Muslim allies on top• Artisan classes
PERIOD 3 (1450-1750)
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 DeclineJapan• 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 (1750-1900)
• 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 WestChina• 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 SYSTEMSJapan• IndustrializationChina • Trade with the West • Manchu
THEME 5- SOCIAL ORDERJapan• Samurai class abolished• West
• adopted• Family life• Population growthChina• Qing keep Ming Social Order• Compradors
PERIOD 5- 1900 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 loyaltyChina Technocrat class Women’s rights