Regional outline for East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam. Divided into five units and seven categories (political, economic, social, science, art, empire, and religion).
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| 151657442 | Political, 8000-600 CE | Dynasties with emperors; mandate of heaven; start of bureaucracy | 0 | |
| 151657443 | Economic, 8000-600 CE | Lots of money flowing from Silk Roads, otherwise agricultural | 1 | |
| 151657444 | Social, 8000-600 CE | Confucian principles, women only power in court; scholars/officials > military > artisans; few live in cities | 2 | |
| 151657445 | Science, 8000-600 CE | Iron Age; modernized army; paper, accurate sundials/calendars, agricultural improvements (plow) | 3 | |
| 151657446 | Art, 8000-600 CE | Brush painting; palaces | 4 | |
| 151657447 | Empire, 8000-600 CE | Collapse of empires in China from internal problems, economic depression | 5 | |
| 151657448 | Religion, 8000-600 CE | Polytheism; animism; ancestor worship; Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism; spread of Buddhism from India | 6 | |
| 151657449 | Political, 600-1450 CE | Japan borrowed from China; increased bureaucracy; tributary system; constant threat from North Prince Shotoku then daimyos | 7 | |
| 151657450 | Economic, 600-1450 CE | Paper money; credit or 'flying money;' high taxes cause peasant revolts; serfs bound to land | 8 | |
| 151657451 | Social, 600-1450 CE | Code of Bushido: chivalry; women lost freedom in Japan | 9 | |
| 151657452 | Science, 600-1450 CE | Gunpowder for military; boats: junks; navigation/block printing; iron production; agricultural technique = population = cities | 10 | |
| 151657453 | Art, 600-1450 CE | Infrastructure (roads, inns, postal stations); Japan: haiku, pencil sketches, ink sketches, Noh drama, tea ceremony | 11 | |
| 151657454 | Empire, 600-1450 CE | Mongol empires conquer China, fail in Japan; replaced by Ottoman Turks and Ju Yuanzahng of Ming dynasty | 12 | |
| 151657455 | Religion, 600-1450 CE | Buddhist missionaries; Shinto religion; influenced by monotheistic religions; neo-confucian | 13 | |
| 151657456 | Political, 1450-1750 CE | Fall of Ming from internal/external, Manchu; Japan: Era of Warring States period to Tokogawa Shogunate; centralized rule | 14 | |
| 151657457 | Economic, 1450-1750 CE | China: trade with Europeans in Qing; Japan: manufacturing merchant class get wealth and power; urbanization and population growth | 15 | |
| 151657458 | Social, 1450-1750 CE | Foreigners allowed in China; Manchus higher than Chinese; Japan: hierarchy becomes unbreakable, samurai at top | 16 | |
| 151657459 | Science, 1450-1750 CE | Gunpowder more prevalent; globalization of trade | 17 | |
| 151657460 | Art, 1450-1750 CE | Japan: kabuki theatre replaces restrained drama; woodblock prints becomes art form; borrowed Korean ceramics and western oil painting | 18 | |
| 151657461 | Empire, 1450-1750 CE | Japan empire centralized; fall of Manchu empire; interaction with west-China: relatively isolated, Japan: periods of isolation and acceptance | 19 | |
| 151657462 | Religion, 1450-1750 CE | New sects of Buddhism from China to Japan; neo-confucianism increase | 20 | |
| 151657463 | Political, 1750-1914 CE | Abdication of Qing and unification of China; fight for control with Mao; Japan: abolishes feudalism, civil code, regional governments; nationalism rises | 21 | |
| 151657464 | Economic, 1750-1914 CE | Provide labor for plantations/mines; Meiji Restoration and industrialization in Japan | 22 | |
| 151657465 | Social, 1750-1914 CE | Rigid Tokogawa hierarchy ended; middle class grows; lower classes have terrible conditions, taxed a lot | 23 | |
| 151657466 | Science, 1750-1914 CE | British introduce opium to China; westernization of Japan; steamships/railroads; communication revolution | 24 | |
| 151657467 | Art, 1750-1914 CE | Styles change more rapidly and radically than ever | 25 | |
| 151657468 | Empire, 1750-1914 CE | Fall of China: opium wars, internal rebellions, external pressure, boxer rebellion; Japanese imperialism: Taiwan, Korea, Russia | 26 | |
| 151657469 | Religion, 1750-1914 CE | Scientific and secular world becomes dominant | 27 | |
| 151657470 | Political, 1914-now | Decolonization from Europe, nominally democratic; tensions between China and West, USSR and China split; birth of Chinese Republic; parliamentary capitalism in Japan | 28 | |
| 151657471 | Economic, 1914-now | Modernization of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea; less affected by global depression; need natural resources | 29 | |
| 151657472 | Social, 1914-now | Slow to embrace diversity and individualism; high degree of social services | 30 | |
| 151657473 | Science, 1914-now | Atomic bombs, nuclear weaponry, militarism in Japan; computer, internet, biotechnology and genetic science | 31 | |
| 151657474 | Art, 1914-now | Theme for literature is to resist US; new style of cubism; movie industry; use of concrete and glass; new skepticism | 32 | |
| 151657475 | Empire, 1914-now | Japan: WW2 invade Manchuria, China, Siberia, take over Southeast Asia, bomb Pearl Harbor to bring US into war = atomic bomb = US occupies Japan | 33 | |
| 151657476 | Religion, 1914-now | Religious fundamentalism; western appreciation for science spread | 34 |
