Japanese+korea+and+Veitnam

Merchants were strong during this era by trading silk, hemp, papers, dys, and vegetable oils. Tax collection was introduced and was needed. || Men and women followed strict codes of polite behavior. Men focused on the beauty of women. Women were expected to be as poised and cultured as men. Women took major step in society as leaders in writing poetry, played flutes, and participated in elaborate schemes to snub or disgrace rivals. Got involved in palace intrigues. In the Hein court, member of the household and leading aristocrat families lived in a complex of palaces and gardens. women could not peruse love but wait for men to peruse to them. Marrying another family member was not only allowed but seemed to be necessary to them because of their consideration of continuing to have power in their bloods.Japan was heading the direction of feudal rule much like western europe. || hw: one page summary on Tang and Song, and identify major changes and continuities.
 * E || Imperial courts founded important to continue imports and exports from china, and to balance out the economy.
 * S || Love affairs were a major preoccupation.
 * P || objective was to make japan an absolutist chinese-style emperor which were intended to create a genuine professional bureaucracy for these goals to be achieved.Taika reforms were banned by emperor Kammu which included buddhist monks trying to control the central government and the emperor himself. power of lords grew while the imperial courts and household aristocracy declined. Later on this led to the Gempei Wars. the tiara and Minamoto families fought for a number one spot to be supported by the lords. Chinese ideas and precedents vanished as the power of imperial house weakened. Bakufu ment military government. Fuedal age began with Minamoto and their samurai retainers. ||
 * I || gracious and well-mannered people. Writing verse was the most valued art in this time period. Samurai, and bushi's were worries that fought and collected armies in their respected lands and brought protection to the imperial government even though they were devoted to their local lords. weapons for them included longbows, and straight swords. Seppuku was practiced, and was defined as a disembowelment ||
 * R || * Mostly looked for Buddha and followed confuscianism as a daily routine.
 * after peasant no longer could become samurais, and bushi's they looked for buddhism in the form of salvationism,
 * which promised a place in heaven for those who offered the promise of bliss ||
 * I || Japanese seemed more romantic and more open than chinese. Written scripts from china that was borrowed by the japanese was simplified which led to a more compatible and well spoken japanese language. Advancement in poetry and literature. Lady Murasaki's famous The tale of Genji ||
 * T || were able to build high building which were mostly used to see invaders. ||

· Women loose power and influence · Trade · Chinese architecture · Chinese written language · Attempted bureaucracy || · Their feudal system was unique · No social mobility · Different poetry and literature · The aristocratic elite rose to power · Warrior elite class and ruling elite class · Manorial system || · Paid tribute to Chinese · Spread Buddhism · Trade with china · Under Chinese order Vietnamese had to go to Chinese style schools · Wrote in Chinese script || · Descended from the hunting and herding peoples of eastern Siberia, and Manchuria rather than Mongolian and Turkic speaking tribes to the west. · Improved Chinese ceramic work · Unique way of dress, cuisine, and class system · Improve the Chinese printing · Own racial distinctiveness · Their social class was composed of aristocrats and the rest of the people || · Bureaucracy · Went to Chinese schools · Chinese cropping techniques and irrigation techniques · Political and military values ||  · Spoke different language · Women were more free in family and society · They dressed differently, skirts rather than pants. · Art, literature, and poetry · ||
 * || Borrowed from China || Unique ||
 * Japan || · Syncretism of Buddhist deities and Japanese ancient Kamis
 * Korea || · ** Chosen ** was the oldest Korean kingdom that was conquered by the Han emperor Wudi.
 * Vietnam || · Buddhism