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The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography.
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The Shang Dynasty's accomplishments and characteristics include bronze work, military technology, including horse-drawn chariots, writing, a calendar, and religion, which featured ancestor worship and oracle bones.
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The most significant achievement of the Zhou Dynasty was the development of the Chinese philosophies, including Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism.
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Well-known achievements is the creation of the Great Wall and a large army of Terracotta Warriors.
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The Han dynasty is known its long reign and its achievements, which included the development of the civil service and government structure.
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The Silla dynasty was immensely significant to Korea because it was the first ever ruling power to bring unity amongst the people of Korea.
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Goguryeo (Koguryo) was the kingdom which ruled northern Korea during the Three Kingdoms period.
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Baekje was a great maritime power; its nautical skill, which made it the Phoenicia of East Asia, was instrumental in the dissemination of Buddhism throughout East Asia and continental culture to Japan.
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The Sui dynasty also had a stable economy, which was militaristic, and they were legalists.
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During the Tang rule China experienced a time of peace and prosperity that made it one of the most powerful nations in the world. This time period is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Ancient China.
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The state of Parhae grew powerful and wealthy. It was a hostile rival to Silla, the most significant power on the Korean peninsula, and Silla built a defensive wall along its northern border. Like Silla, Parhae was among the states that offered tribute to the Tang.
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The most influential of these aristocratic families were the Fujiwara, who basically controlled the Japanese royal court and encouraged a highly-refined elite culture.
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Other achievements of the dynasty were elegant wooden structures, literary histories, cast-metal movable type, and the production of gunpowder.
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The Silla dynasty was immensely significant to Korea because it was the first ever ruling power to bring unity amongst the people of Korea.
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Song Dynasty. Starting in 960 and ending in 1279, the Song Dynasty consisted of the Northern Song (960-1127) and the Southern Song (1127-1279). With a prosperous economy and radiant culture, this period was considered as another period of 'golden age' after the glorious Tang Dynasty
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Japanese warlords, known as shoguns, claimed power from the hereditary monarchy and their scholar-courtiers, giving the samurai warriors and their lords' ultimate control of the early Japanese empire.
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Genghis Khan and his successors expanded the Mongol Empire across Asia, eventually conquering northern China.
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Art of all kinds—architecture, literature, Noh drama, Kyōgen (comedy), poetry, sarugaku (folk entertainment), the tea ceremony, landscape gardening, and flower arranging—all flourished during Muromachi times.
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Known for its trade expansion to the outside world that established cultural ties with the West, the Ming Dynasty is also remembered for its drama, literature and world-renowned porcelain.
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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.
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The lasting influence of the Ashikaga era is in the arts and culture of Japan. During this period, the samurai class enthusiastically embraced Zen Buddhism, which had been imported from China as early as the seventh century.
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Tokugawa period, also called Edo period, (1603–1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Qing Dynasty was the final imperial dynasty in China, lasting from 1644 to 1911. It was an era noted for its initial prosperity and tumultuous final years, and for being only the second time that China was not ruled by the Han people.
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Also called the Meiji Emperor, he was the first ruler of Japan to wield actual political power in centuries.
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During the era of the weak Emperor Taisho, the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
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