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Between about a.d. 300 and 600, powerful local rulers forged three separate kingdoms: Koguryo (koh guh ree oh) in the north, Paekche (pehk cheh) in the southwest, and Shilla (shil lah) in the southeast.
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By about a.d. 500, the Yamato clan came to dominate a corner of Honshu, the largest Japanese island. For the next 1,000 years, the Yamato Plain was the heartland of Japanese government.
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During the brief Sui dynasty the emperor Sui Wendi reunited the north and south.
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Block printing is invented in the 700's
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The Machanical clock is made in the 700's
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In 710, the Japanese emperor built a new capital at Nara, modeled on the Tang capital at Chang'an.
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at about 1200, the Mongols burst out of Central Asia to conquer an empire stretching across Asia and Europe. In the process, they overran Song China and imposed Mongol rule on its people.
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In 1271, Polo left Venice with his father and uncle. He crossed Persia and Central Asia to reach China. During his stay in China, he spent 17 years in Kublai's service.
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When the Japanese refused to accept Mongol rule, Kublai Khan launched an invasion from Korea in 1274.
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Genghiz Khan's grandson, Kublai (koo blī), finally toppled the last Song emperor in 1279.
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In the 1200s and 1300s, the sons and grandsons of Genghiz Khan established peace and order within their domains.
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In the 1300s, feudal culture had produced Nō plays performed on a square, wooden stage without scenery.
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A new dynasty took power in 1338, but the level of warfare increased after 1450.
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The Mongols occupied Korea until the 1350s.
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In 1368,there was a new Chinese dynasty, which was called the Ming, meaning brilliant.
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In 1392, the brilliant Korean general Yi Song-gye (ee sung keh) set up the Choson dynasty.
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he 1400s, when Sogi lived, were a time of political intrigue, rebellions, and feudal warfare in Japan.
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In 1405, Zheng He commanded the first of seven expeditions. He departed at the head of a fleet of 62 huge ships and hundreds of smaller ones, carrying a crew of more than 25,000 sailors.
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n 1433, the year Zheng He died, the Ming emperor suddenly banned the building of seagoing ships.
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In the 1500s, new crops reached China from the Americas, especially corn and sweet potatoes.
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In the 1590s, an ambitious Japanese ruler decided to invade China by way of Korea.
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By 1590, the brilliant general Toyotomi Hideyoshi (hee day yoh shee), a commoner by birth, had brought most of Japan under his control
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Minamoto Yoritomo was appointed shogun in 1192.
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By about a.d. 500, missionaries from Korea had introduced Buddhism to Japan. With it came knowledge of Chinese writing and culture.
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In the early 600s, Prince Shotoku of the Yamato clan decided to learn about China directly instead of through Korean sources.
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In 1281, the Mongols landed an even larger invasion force, but again a typhoon destroyed much of the Mongol fleet.
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In the 1600s, the vigorous urban culture produced a flood of colorful woodblock prints to satisfy middle-class tastes.
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a rebel general overthrew the last Tang emperor.
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A scholory general founds the song dynasty.
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Gun Powder is made in China
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In 108 b.c., the Han emperor Wudi invaded Korea and set up a military colony there.
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Tang dynasty rises to power