Political Cultural Economical

• Chinses systems of government using Confucianism and Bureaucracy.

• Chinese culture spread throughout Asia.

• Chinese economy became commercialized and flourished.

• What is Confucianism?

  • Focused on moral examples to restore social harmony

  • Focused on unequal relationships (superior and inferior)

  • Spread and emphasized through education

• Filial piety is the ideology of respecting your elders

• Foot binding is used so show subordination

• China became commercialized while still having free labor

• China had an economic revolution

• Agricultural production flourished due to rice production and terrace farming

• Urbanization also flourished creating specialized markets, inns, schools, and clubs.

What was China’s golden age? A time of Art, Philosophy, Confucianism, Patriarchy

• China was split in 2 when the nomadic people took over, and turned into 2 states

• Women lived in a patriarchal society and were told to submit themselves to the men

• China integrated its culture and traditions into Korea. Korea brought tributes to china too.

• Vietnam also was integrated into Chinese culture and brought tributes.

• Japan was able to choose what it integrated due to its distance from china geographically