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Korea

Published on Mar 24, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

KOREA

SECTION 3
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GEOGRAPHY

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Korea is located on a peninsula off of China

HOW LOCATION EFFECTS KOREA

INVADED BY THE HANS

  • Set up military colonies
  • Influenced their writing system

THE SILLA DYNASTY

668-935
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  • Arts flourished
  • Buddhism grew greatly
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  • Astronomy
  • Metal casting
  • Sculpture/textile maufacturing

KORYO DYNASTY

935-1392
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  • Used woodblocks to create woodblock printings
  • Improved many Chinese inventions
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  • Learned to make porcelain from China
  • Perfected the technique for celadon
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1200's Mongols overran Korea and destroyed many industries
The making of celadon was lost forever

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THE CHOSON DYNASTY

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Last and longest out of the 3 dynasties

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KOREA CREATES AN ALPHABET

  • Wanted to reduce complex Chinese writing
  • Experts developed Hangul
  • The use of Hangul quickly spread
  • Led to a high literacy rate

JAPAN INVADES

1590'S
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They wanted to invade China through Korea

6 YEARS LATER

Japanese withdraw

Took many Korean artisans to introduce new skills to Japan

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How did Buddhism influence Korea?

How did the relative location of Korea effect their civilization?

How did Korea preserve it's own identity under the Choson Dyansty?

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