MindMap Gallery 1.1 Developments in East Asia
This is a mind map about 1.1 Developments in East Asia,Main content: Korea,Vietnam,Social Structure,Japan: Heian Period,Religious Diversity,Intellectual and Cultural Developments:,Economic Developments,Government Developemts in Song Dynasty.
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Government Developemts in Song Dynasty
Imperial Bureaucracy: continuity since Qin. Too big to govern at last, contributed to decline of Song.
Civil Service Exam: Based on Confucian classics. Meritocracy. More upward mobility for the poor.
Economic Developments
Transportation Developemnts: Grand Canal, magnetic compass, new ship-building techniques.
Gunpowder: spread across silkroad.
Champa Rice: from Vietnam. Boosted population.
"Black Earth" - coal: exploded iron and steel production.
Proto-industrialization: people in rural areas made more goods than they could sell. Homebased using simple equipments. Industrialization: factory based, complex machineries.
Taxes: increased money in circulation.
Tributary System
Social Structure
Hierarchical. Scholar Gentry: created by bureaucratic expansion. Outnumbered aristocracy. Educated in Confucian philosophy. --> farmers --> artisans --> merchants.
Role of Women: Patriarchal society. Foot binding as a symbol of eliteness.
Intellectual and Cultural Developments:
Wooblock Printing
Reading: paper and printing expanded availability of books. The privileged class consumed an produced alot of literary works.
Religious Diversity
Buddhism: from India via Silk Roads. Believed in the Four Noble truths: suffering could be alleviated by eliminating carvings following steps of the Eight-Fold Path. Printing made Budhist scriptures popular among the scholar gentry.
Thervada Buddhism: Southeast Asia, Si Lanka. Meditation. Monks only.
Mahayana Budhism: China, Korea. Available to all.
Tibetan Budhism: Tibet. Chanting.
Chan/Zen Buddhism: syncretic religion with Doaism. Meditation. Rejected by Confucian and Doaists leaders in Tang but remained popular.
Cofucianism
Song government through filia piety.
Neoconfucianism: syncretic, rational thoughts + Daosim + Buddhism. Ethics, not God an nature.
Japan: Heian Period
Separated from China by sea: more ability to control its interactions with China than Korea or Vietnam.
Promoted Buddhism and Confucianism. Woodblock printing.
Feudalism: no centralized government. Little social mobility. Hereditary hierarchies.
Japan: Daimyo - privileged landowners , Samurai - protectors, Serfs - peasants. Daimyo more powerful than emperor or shogun. Bushio: duty of Samurais about loyalty and frugality.
Europe: Nobles, Knights, Serfs. Monarch above nobility. Code of Chivalry: duty of the knights.
Emperor with little power unlike the Chinese emperor who oversaw a large bureaucracy.
Vietnam
More adversarial relationship with China.
Social Structure
Women had more independence: rejecte foot binding, polygyny.
Nuclear families unlike the extened families of China.
No centralization: independent villages. Adopted merit-baed bureaucracy but officials owed more allegiances to peasants than to the emperor.
Korea
Tributary relationship with China.
Centralized government in the Chinese style. Adopted Confucianism and Buddhism. Aopted the writing system.
Powerful landowning aristocrats unlike China.
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