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1. Honors World History
KOREA

2. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
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How did the relationship between Korea
and China develop between 108 B.C.E.
and 1392C.E.?

3. GEOGRAPHY OF KOREA
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Features:
Mountains
 Rice paddies
 Sea

Northwestern boundary:
300 miles from historical
China
 Southern tip: 100 miles
from the southern
Japanese island of
Kyushu
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4. ANCIENT KOREA
2000
B.C.E.
1500
B.C.E.
1000
B.C.E.
500
B.C.E.
0
500
C.E.
1000
C.E.
1500
C.E.
2000
C.E.

5. BRONZE, AGRARIAN, AND IRON
REVOLUTIONS OF KOREA
Population lived in small villages along
coasts and rivers
 Animists

 Worshiped
forces of nature
 Shamans
 Spoke

to the dead
Buried leaders in enormous tomb mounds

6. CHINESE COMMANDERIES
108 B.C.E. – 313 C.E.
108 B.C.E.: Han Emperor Wudi
sent an army into Korea to
flank Xiongnu Empire (north
of China)
 Wudi established 4
commanderies in Korea

Han troops
 Forts
 Ruled over local villages
 Lolang, commandery near
present-day Pyongyang

Han Wudi

7. THREE ANCIENT STATES OF KOREA
• Silla
• Paekche
• Koguryo
• Fought among
themselves
• Powerful kings
• Aristocratic society
governed local villages
• Buddhism from China
• Most villagers
continue to practice
animism

8. SILLA
Strong
 Chinese helped them to unify Korea for 8
years (660-668)
 Silla sent gifts (tributes) to the Chinese court

Chinese protected Korea’s northern boundary
from Chinese nomad invasions
 Adopted Chinese writing
 Silla incorporated part of the Chinese
government model
 Confucian national academy to train officials
 Annual embassies to Tang court


9. KORYO (918-1392)
After the fall of the Tang
dynasty, Korean’s northern border was
subject to Chinese nomadic invaders
 Silla court faced coups and rebellions
 918, a warlord general founded the
Koryo dynasty


10. KORYO (918-1392)



Koryo becomes English
“Korea”
Created earliest surviving
records of Korean history.
Buddhist temples and
monasteries are built


Stupa (on bottom right)
contains a sutra (relic of
Buddha)
Advancements



Poetry
Literature
Printing (c. 1250)using
movable metal type)
Pulguksa Temple (751)

11. KORYO (918-1392)

More “Chinese” than
Silla State
 Government
offices and
laws in Chinese style
 Society
 aristocrats
and
commoners
Aristocrats
Commoners
Slaves

12. KORYO (918-1392)

Economy
 Underdeveloped
 Barter;

no money
Mongols
 Wars
weakened the dynasty
 Mongol invasions of Japan were launched
from Korean ports

1400s: development of Korean alphabet

13. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:


How is early Korean history shaped by its
geography?
How was Buddhism introduced to Korea
and Japan?