Asian Nations in Motion

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CHAPTER 14

• Asian Nations in Motion
• 1300-1650

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China The Ming Dynasty

• The Early Ming Era
• Ming Society and Culture in the Sixteenth Century
• Ming Decline

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Korea The Making of a Confucian Society

• The Beginning of the Chosôn Dynasty

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Japan From Warring States to Centralized
Feudalism

• Warring States
• Tokugawa Shogunate
• Economic and Social Changes The Western Factor
• Cultural Expressions

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Southeast Asia States Within a Region

• Burma and the Thais
• Vietnam
• Indonesia
• Arrival of the Europeans

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YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND

• The characteristics of Chinese culture under the
  Ming dynasty.
• Korea under the Silla, Koryo, and Yi dynasties.

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YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND

• What Japan was like during the Ashikaga and early
  Tokugawa shogunates.
• The geographical influences on Southeast Asia,
  the outside influences that determined its
  direction, and the pattern of rivalries that kept
  the region divided.