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Shang’s Dynasty most significant contribution to history and culture was the creation of writing.
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The Zhou Dynasty introduced a very important religion, Confucianism.
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A spectacular and grand contribution to history and culture by the Qin Dynasty was the Great Wall of China, which slowed down the invaders
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Han Dynasty empire in 87 BC #2 First known paper-making process was invented by Cai Lun of Han Dynasty
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520 CE
Silla king Beopheung introduces the bone rank system. the first ever ruling power to bring unity amongst the people of Korea. -
was the first to be established as well as the largest and most powerful.
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Baekje was founded in 18 BC by King Onjo, who led a group of people from Goguryeo south to the Han River basin.
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Date Event; 581: The Sui dynasty begins and unifies China.
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The Tang Dynasty expanded the borders of China through, “Siberia in the north, Korea in the east, and Vietnam in the South,”
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Parhae was the successor state to Koguryŏ, which had occupied most of northern Korea and Manchuria before being conquered in 668 by the kingdom of Silla, with the aid of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907).
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774 CE - 835 CE
Life of the monk Kukai (aka Kobo Daishi), founder of Shingon Buddhism in Japan. -
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This dynasty had a unique beginning. Its founder, Wang Geon (reigned 918–943), embraced his former rivals and brought them into the fold of his new dynasty.
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1012
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Two invasion attempts by the Mongols in 1274 and 1281 were thwarted by Japanese warriors with the aid of the “divine wind” (kamikaze) of typhoons that decimated the enemy fleet.
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1331
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1333 CE
Nitta Yoshisada attacks and destroys Kamakura, capital of Japan's Kamakura Shogunate. -
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One great contribution of the Ming Dynasty that is still seen today was the repairment of the Great Wall of China; they placed cannons along the walls
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Joseon was the last dynasty of Korea and its longest-ruling Confucian dynasty. During its reign, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Chinese Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. Neo-Confucianism was installed as the new dynasty's state ideology.
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it was an age of magnificence and ostentation. The building of great castles and mansions replaced temple architecture.
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From the late 12th century through the 17th century, Japan was ruled by samurais (military leaders) but politics remained unstable. Internal wars and power shifts were very frequent, especially during the late 15th century to the end of the 16th century (called Sengoku Jidai, or warring period).
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Trade problems (Around 1793 - 1838 A.D.). China wants their silks, tea, and ceramics to be paid for in silver, not in exchange for foreign goods. This works for some time until France and England are concerned about their supplies of silver. They come up with trading schemes, such as getting the Chinese addicted to opium.
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Emperor Meiji rarely wielded personal political power, but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by abolishing the feudal land system, reforming education, and adopting for Japan a democratic form of government under the Meiji Constitution of 1890.
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The Shōwa period was preceded by the Taishō period (1912–26) and was followed by the Heisei period (1989– ). The first part of the Shōwa, from Hirohito’s enthronement in 1926 to the end of World War II in 1945, is known as the early Shōwa period.
