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Korea Koryo to Chosun 935 CE

Koryo Dynasty 935-1392 CE. Factionalism and corruption weaken Silla DynastyTang China collapses leaving Silla without a protectorThe Sadae principle fails them??Restoration movements in both Baekche and KoguryoBoth gain independence. Transition: Later Baekche. Later Baekche emergesPrince im

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Korea Koryo to Chosun 935 CE

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    1. Korea Koryo to Chosun 935 CE + 17

    2. Koryo Dynasty 935-1392 CE Factionalism and corruption weaken Silla Dynasty Tang China collapses leaving Silla without a protector The Sadae principle fails them?? Restoration movements in both Baekche and Koguryo Both gain independence

    3. Transition: Later Baekche Later Baekche emerges Prince imprisons his father Younger brother liberates father Liberated Father and his followers join Later Koguryo as junior partner in an alliance

    4. Transition: Later Koguryo Later Koguryo emerges under King Wang Kon Takes over the lower half of Parhae (lower half of the early Koguryo nation)

    5. Koryo Wang Kon allies with the senior king of Later Baekche 935 CE: Koguryo overthrows Silla to unify Korea again Takes on the new dynastic name: Koryo (??) High and elegant

    6. Koryo Dynasty 935-1392 CE First King: Wang Kon Great coalition builder and peacemaker Baekche elites brought into his leadership alliance with elderly Baekche king Incorporate Silla Elite by marrying Silla princess Capital at Kaeseong now bisected by the DMZ

    7. Koryo Leadership Continued dominance of the Yangban Class Yangban means two-sides or two corps Emerged in Silla continued in Koryo Civil elite + Military elite = Yangban Hereditary status for political position

    8. Koryo Dynasty Farming done by tenants and SLAVES 1/3 of Koryo population classified as slaves

    9. Koryo Dynasty: Golden age For Korean Women Matrilocal marriage: Women relatively well off Women own property Women can inherit Women may get custody in case of divorce Widows can remarry Some women even take on multiple husbands men taking on multiple wives was never uncommon in Korea until modern times

    10. Koryo Dynasty 935-1392 CE Civil service system develops Exams, but still hereditary elite

    11. Flowering of Arts: Celedon pottery

    14. Flowering of Arts: Buddhist artwork Koreana Tripitaka Heinsa Temple

    16. Moveable type invented But not much used Shipping Developed in the 1100s Sextant Deep water navigation

    17. Koryo Occupied by Mongols: 1231 Guerilla resistance until 1270 Mongols oversee building of 900 ships & attack Japan 1270s (Korean sailors)

    18. Koryo Occupied by Mongols: 1231 Ming dynasty in China overthrows Mongols in 1368. Koryo elites vacillate between loyalty to Ming and to Mongols.

    19. Koryo Collapse Yi Seung-kye is dispatched to repel Ming attack Yis coup Ming alliance New Chosun Dynasty (named by Ming emperor) 1392-1910

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