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Document Summary
Most of the plains are located in today"s. Much like japan, korea was a very insular society (chinese didn"t interfere though. Buddhism and confucian values influenced politics and education. Education: korean has two scripts, used chinese script but also have a korean script which was simpler. Geography of the korean peninsula & historical geography of china. Have had 5k years of culture which is reflected in their extensive occupation in the peninsula. Scholars believed koreans are distantly related to the altaic ethnic group (monguls, turks, hungarians) not proven. Much of korean history is tied up with its more powerful neighbors: china and japan. Korean peninsula is demarcated from its northern neighbors by two rivers: yalu (southwest flow) and tunin (northeast flow) Korean side of rivers are long white mountains that cut korea off from china and. Korea and japan were tied together during the last ice age.
