HIST281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: History Of East Asia, Shang Dynasty, History Of Japan
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History and problem of beginnings: time does not start/stop. 1500 is meaningless in east asia hongzhi in ming (the state of ming), hongchi in. Joseon (the state of choson/joson) and year 9 of meio (ancient japan) Not a bad period according to dunch. There was a similar degree of technology, social and economic change happening in east. Urbanization & increasing social complexity in asia. 1500 a way of labelling the flow of past time. Refers to a system of dispersed power; also (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) mar(cid:454)"s te(cid:374)et of history (class struggle). Feudalism: a system where hereditary lord but aristocrats own the land in which the peasants have no ownership of. They work in the land and die in the land they worked in. Knights pledge fealty to the lord in exchange for land. Please eliminate this term from vocabulary. (cid:858)feudal period i(cid:374) chi(cid:374)a(cid:859): lasted hundreds of years. Shang dynasty after about 1200 bce (before common era) had to be feudal.
