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concentrating too much wealth in the hands of elites: deforestation, desertification, soil erosion, silted rivers. B. External problems resulted from the security issues along their frontiers, including the threat of invasion: between Han China and the Xiongnu, between the Gupta and the White Huns, between the Romans and their northern and eastern neighbors. Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange I. Land and water resources became the basis for transregional…

Gender Metaphors in Traditional Chinese Stories Within the traditional Chinese stories about filial women, gender metaphors create a connection between how a wife must stay loyal to her marriage and how a devoted official must stay obedient towards his ruler. These gender metaphors are seen in the stories of Wang Zhaojun, Goiter Su, and Yurang. These stories connect female beauty and love to male virtue and loyalty to one’s king. Although these stories reveal the importance of diligence in…

Early in East Asia history, merchants needed to go where they can make money and trades at. In certain time periods, it was hard to make money for merchants because of what dynasties was in power or constantly change of a dynasty. However, there were periods when merchants actually a lot of made money and trades. Merchants has its ups and downs, but their goals is the make money. When Merchants was most successful it was during the Sui & Tang dynasty was in control and Chang’an was the capital…

Yazel Myhoob 2 October 2017 Identify #4 Ashoka- Ashoka lived in ancient India and played an important role as the ruler of Maurya from 268 to 232 BC. Ashoka conquered Kalinga due to his interest in their powerful trade systems and sought to force his rule upon the people of Kalinga, modern-day Orissa. Ashoka eventually conquered Kalinga and had almost asserted his rule over the whole continent. Pataliputra was crowned as the capital city of Maurya after Kalinga was conquered. Brahmins-…

Qin Shihuangdi, the emperor of the Qin Dynasty, was described by Jacqueline Morley as an “all-seeing eyes, the nose of a hornet, the voice of a jackal, and the heart of a wolf.” Shihuangdi ruled his dynasty for approximately 15 years from 221 BC through 206 BC, throughout those long 15 years Shihuangdi changed many laws and duties. He changed China’s currency, writing style, weights, measures, and distance. Shihuangdi changed all these things because he thought there was room for improvement.…

In Kenneth Waltz’s Man State and War, he argues that “states are motivated to attack each other and to defend themselves by the reason and/or passion of the comparatively few.” Although most focus on the power of these small groups or the logical reasoning, much less attention is paid to the “passion,” where it becomes easy to see how nationalistic sentiments could become influential. John Mearsheimer has paid a great deal of attention to the role of nationalism in state interactions, arguing…

was located at the threshold of Central Asia and it shared customs and traded with nomads to the east. In 228 B.C.E., Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty sent general Zhang Jian across Inner Asia to negotiate with the Yuezhi people for help defeating the Xiongnu. Zhang Jian went to Ferghana where he found the Dayuan who had stronger and faster horses than the horses currently in China. He started some trade with the nomads in the east because…

The Qin rulers managed to conquer all neighboring regions and states, but their dynasty was the shortest in Chinese history (221-206 BC.) The empire collapsed after only fifteen years. In only nine years, the Qin succeeded to conquer all regions that comprised the former Zhou Empire through successive wars that lasted between 230 and 231 BC. The Qin dynasty also managed to capture all distant areas toward the southern and northern sides. The society was immensely centralized, and any slight…

The Neolithic agricultural revolution occurred when hunter-gatherers learned how to farm crops and it changed women and men daily lives. The Neolithic agricultural revolution did not suddenly occur, Pathologic hunters and gathers had already grown crops to supplement their traditional source of food. “The Mesolithic Age was when there was a transition from a food-gathering and hunting economy to food-producing one. Systemic agriculture developed independently in different areas of the world.” (p…

Across the different nations of East Asia, systems of writing evolved and changed throughout history. Korea as a nation began to develop its own system of writing in 1443, with political opposition. An official under King Sejong the leader of Korea at this time expressed great fear of this development. The official Ch’oe Malli believed that the creation of their own writing system would divide the country, cause social disorder and equate them to the same level as other nations known as…