ANCIENT EAST ASIA “The more laws and ordnances promulgated Then more thieves and robbers there are”

ANCIENT EAST ASIA

“The more laws and ordnances promulgated

Then more thieves and robbers there are”

7k years

SHANG

1500 BCE

City-state

King, war

ZHOU

Zhou Part of Shang 1100 B.C.E.

KONG FUZI

• Junzi (gentlemen)

• Jen: virtue, culture

• Stability

LEGALISM

Strict laws

Enforcement

• Sun Tzu– Art of War

• Popular: 19th & 20th cent.

WARRING STATES

• Later Zhou

• 401-256 B.C.

• Consolidation

QIN (220-210 b.c.) Centralized Standards “China”

HAN (200 b.c.-200 a.d.)

• Order

• Authority– Ruler? – Women?

POP.

• +++

• 60 mil.

KOREA

• 30k

• 5,500 b.c.e

• Clan • Independent

BRONZE AGE

• 800-300 B.C.E

• Rice

• “walled towns”• Confederation

• Laws• Simple, severe

• murder, injury, theft

WOMEN

• Low

CULTURE

• Festivals

• Religion? • Egalitarian• Afterlife

THREE KINGDOMS

• Consolidation

• Centralized

CULTURE

• Poetry, Song• -instruments? 40

• Buildings

JAPAN

• 20k: S.E. Asia

• 10k b.c.: Jomon

EARLY LIFE• Imp. people = gods

• created world, life

• Burials• Jewelry

• Small regions

• Consolidation

• 5th cent:• Larger kingdoms

INFLUENCE?

• Nationalism: Chinese influence

• Refugees: 5-7 cent.• -Language, culture