Japan,+Korea,+and+Vietnam

You m ust include main ideas and details in each category Civilization/Nation/Group __Japanese__ Time Period _//__500-1450 C.E__// _ · The more able daimyos tried to stabilize village life with in their domains by introducing regular tax collection, supporting the construction of irrigation system and other public works, and building strong rural communities. · Peasants were also encouraged to produce items such as silk, hemp, paper, dyes and vegetable oils which were highly marketable and thus potential sources of household income. · New tools, the greater use of draft animals, and new crops-especially soybeans-contributed to the well-being of the peasantry in the better run domains. · || · The Japanese like the Chinese used a system to rank the aristocracy precedent in determining rank by birth and by allowing little mobility between the various orders. · Men and women of the aristocratic classes followed strict codes of polite behavior, under the constant scrutiny of their peers and superiors. · In this hothouse atmosphere, //social status was everything, love affairs were a major preoccupation, and gossip was rampant.// · Women rivaled men as poets, artists, and musicians and in their pervasive cultivation of aesthetic pleasure, it was unseemly for them to openly pursue lovers although some women did court prospective lovers with great guile and passion. · It was not uncommon for a high born woman to spurn her suitor and humiliate him in front of her maidservants. · Both the court and the monks nobility greatly increased the number of peasants and artisans they in effect ruled when the lands under their control expanded. · Cooperation between monastic orders and courts aristocrats was promoted by the introduction of the secret texts and ceremonies of esoteric Buddhism in this period. · As the aristocrats and monk built up their own power, they failed to check on the growing power of the local lords. · Japanese peasants were reduced in the next centuries to the status of serfs because the rise of the samurai slaughtered all hopes of free peasantry. · Peasants armed with pikes became a critical component of daimyo armies. · The peasants in different areas sporadically rose up in hopeless but often ferocious revolts, which fed the trend toward brutality and destruction. · The role of women deterioted in society and soon they were nothing more than a burden whose only use was to seal alliances, and their independence of being able to go and fight with the men and such was stripped away from them. · Women couldn’t rule Japan due to Empress Koken. In her condition a monk had tried to get into her inner circle and try to marry her so he could become Emperor. · || · Families with wealth dominated the bureaucracy. · By the 11th and 12th century, the provincial families had begun to pack the court bureaucracy and compete for power. · Feudal power soon became the governing class when the empire tore apart. || · By the mid 12th century, competition turned into opening feuding between the most powerful of these families, the Taira and the Minamoto. · The Taira was winning when it became aware that it was controlling the emperor but the Minamoto had the support of many other people including provincial lords. · The Gempei Wars ranged on for five years and destroyed a lot of peasantry land and lives were lost at an incredible amount. · In the early 14th century the head of one of the branches of the Minamoto family, Ashikaga Takuaji, led a revolt of the bushi that overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate in its place. · The Japanese tried to put distinct differences between themselves and China. || · The teachings and techniques given to the court aristocracy was to achieve salvation through prayers and mediation, which were focused by mystical diagrams and special hand position. || · Writing verse was perhaps the most valued art at the court. · An outpouring of poetic and literary works that were more and more distinctively Japanese edged them for the simplified script. · || · Lady Murasaki’s **//The Tale of Genji//** was the first novel in any language. · ||
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 * E || · Merchants traded with China and even when the Tang Dynasty had collapsed, merchants still made the dangerous trip to China.
 * S || · Distinct differences between people of the state.
 * P || · Like most of the post-classical civilizations, the Japanese’s central government had been preoccupied with aristocrats.
 * I || · The written script the Japanese had borrowed from the Chinese was simplified, making it more compatible with spoken Japanese.
 * R || · The Japanese took up Buddhism as a religion and their every day daily lives started revolving around it.
 * I || · Japanese emperors and their courtiers continued to inhabit a closed world of luxury and aesthetic delights.
 * T || ·

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o Simplified written language o Painting skills and structure o Religion ex. Buddhism, Confucianism o Elaborate court etiquette oChinese monarch Tang dynasty o Warrior elites o Chinese Temples o Literacy expressions o Women could rule o Believed in suicide o Limited interference || o Sedimentary farming and working techniques o Buddhism o Chinese writing o Unified law code o Confucian || o Confucian teachings/ education o Chinese examination system o Buddhism o Extended household o Written scripts ||
 * Japan || Korea || Vietnam ||
 * o Bureaucratic system

Japan borrowed political and social aspects from China such as the bureacratic system and the adoption of the Chinese monarch from the Tang dynasty, painting skills and structures like drawing small people

A struggle against came, so it went conquest, control and struggle. Influence came from India in the Vietnemese and so it links itself to China.

Summary: China influenced three countries: Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The level of influence in this three countries was different as well as how they became influenced. In Japan it was voluntaray while in Korea and Vietnam it was by force since they were conquered by China. Japan ended up receiving the least amount of influence from China while Korea was the most influenced. In the Japan the amount of influence declined due to the resistance by the provencal elites that didn’t want to be influence and so it broke apart the government and soon turned into fuedalism whereas in Korea at first was unwillingly but eventually did became willing since it knew that being linked to China would give the people access to an education and so they surpassed the Chinese in the arts but the Vietnamese were different, they didn’t want to be linked to China but they also didn’t want to be influenced to India and so when India was trying to take over they got linked to China as a way to ward off the Indians.