HIST 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Samguk Sagi, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Song Dynasty
7 Feb 2018
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Southeasternmost of the three kingdoms of the three kingdom period, in many ways a late-bloomer. Still, silla, rather than kogury was able to reunify the korean peninsula (but without its northern territories) It did so by first forging an alliance with tang china (against paekche, 660 against. Kogury , 668), and then thwarting tang china"s ambitions to turn the korean peninsula into a province (671-676) Non-elites: good (commoners registered in census and providing services to the state) and base people (artisans, slaves, etc. ) Relatively high status for women (descent traced through both parents, no strict separation of the sexes, etc. ) Hwabaek (council of nobles), allowed powerful aristocrats a say in important decisions; kings remain primus inter pares (esp. after 654) Hwarang (flower youths) important factor in unification and ouster of the tang. Faces made up and beautifully dressed, they were respected as hwarang, and men of various sorts gathered around them like clouds.
