1. Themes to Korea’s History
Harrison and Ned

2. Geography

3. What are some themes? Not small Not new Many inventions
Passion for Nature
Confucian
Not China
Not a Hermit
Cannot ignore

4. When does Korea’s history begin?
Paleolithic/
Neolithic

5. Neolithic
BCE
What is new?
What is unique?

6. Bronze and Its Uses:1500-300BCE

7. When do the first Polities appear?
Ancient Chosŏn
Puyŏ
Samhan

8. Does China influence? Nangnang/Lolang Chinese commandery
Impact on peninsula
Collapse
Significance

9. What are the Three Kingdoms?
Koguryŏ
Paekche
Silla
(Kaya)

10. Koguryŏ Until 668 Cultural heritage Chinese claims Korean claims
Another view

11. Paekche
18 BCE- 661
artistic

12. Silla 57 BCE–10th century Location Distance from China
Southern location

13. Comparisons Koguryŏ Paekche Silla 34 BCE 18 BCE 57 BCE
50 BCE–50 CE 1st c nd c
150 CE rd c th c
4th c th c th c

15. What about Kaya? Naktong River Valley Trade Center Six “tribes”
Mimana?

16. Three Kingdoms

17. Why does Silla Unify?
Location
Governmental structure
Kolp’um
Hwarang

18. Buddhism
Unification
Wŏngwang
Wŏnhyo

19. Why Not Paekche?

20. What are some Highlights of Silla?
Kolp’um order
Aristocratic
Buddhist

21. High Culture
Artistic
Literary
Cult of beauty

22. What is Parhae?
Buffer State
Tension with Silla
North/South

23. What explains the Fall of Silla?
Confucian historiography
How unified?
Classic collapse?

24. Koryŏ (918–1392)

25. What are Koryo’s Three Periods?

26. What was Koryo like? Aristocratic Bureaucratic Silla legacy Education
Institutions
Bureaucratic

27. Were there internal challenges?
Yi Chagyŏm
Myoch’ŏng
Military Coup

28. Foreign Contacts
China
Khitans
Jurchen
Mongols
Japan

29. Koryŏ: More than a Vase
Examinations
Schools
Governmental
structure

30. Ceramics

31. Buddhism
Son Beliefs

32. Paintings

33. Printing

34. Tripitaka
Haeinsa Temple
81,000 woodblocks

35. Bells

36. Korea, the name

37. How many more dynasties?Choson
Modern boundaries
Capital, Seoul
Last dynasty

38. Was it a Confucian State?
Confucianism
Harmony
Filial Piety
Loyalty
Neo-Confucianism
MetaphysiccalView
Yangban society

40. What was the role of Women?
Confucian Norms
Loss of Rights
inheritance

41. What was the Imjin War?
Hideyoshi
Yi Sunsin
Aftermath

42. And did the Manchus Invade also?
1627, 1636
Qing Dynasty

43. Did Korea survive? Sirhak (Practical Learning)
17th, 18th Centuries
Good Government
Peasant Livelihood
Technology
Study of Korea

44. What is the Cultural Heritage?
Hangul
Punch’ong Ware
Genre Painting
Architecture
Verse
Music, Dance

46. Nineteenth Century Child Kings Regencies Hereditary Families
Maternal Families
Hereditary Families

47. 1850s East Asian Challenges Internal Unrest Coming of the West China
Japan

48. James Palais
Korea’s uniqueness?