Korea Koryo to Chosun 935 CE

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KoreaKoryo to Chosun935 CE

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Koryo Dynasty935-1392 CE

• Factionalism and corruption weaken Silla Dynasty
• Tang China collapses leaving Silla without a
  protector
• The Sadae principle fails them??
• Restoration movements in both Baekche and Koguryo
• Both gain independence

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Transition Later Baekche

• Later Baekche emerges
• Prince imprisons his father
• Younger brother liberates father
• Liberated Father and his followers join Later
  Koguryo as junior partner in an alliance

Later Baekche ?
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Transition Later Koguryo

• Later Koguryo emerges under King Wang Kon
• Takes over the lower half of Parhae (lower half
  of the early Koguryo nation)

Later Koguryo ?
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Koryo

• Wang Kon allies with the senior king of Later
  Baekche
• 935 CE Koguryo overthrows Silla to unify Korea
  again
• Takes on the new dynastic name Koryo (??)
• High and elegant

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Koryo Dynasty935-1392 CE

• First King Wang Kon
• Great coalition builder and peacemaker
• Baekche elites brought into his leadership
  alliance with elderly Baekche king
• Incorporate Silla Elite by marrying Silla
  princess
• Capital at Kaeseong now bisected by the DMZ

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Koryo Leadership

• Continued dominance of the Yangban Class
• Yangban means two-sides or two corps
• Emerged in Silla continued in Koryo
• Civil elite Military elite Yangban
• Hereditary status for political position

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Koryo Dynasty

• Farming done by tenants and SLAVES
• 1/3 of Koryo population classified as slaves

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Koryo DynastyGolden age For Korean Women

• Matrilocal marriage
• Women relatively well off
• Women own property
• Women can inherit
• Women may get custody in case of divorce
• Widows can remarry
• Some women even take on multiple husbands
• men taking on multiple wives was never uncommon
  in Korea until modern times

Koryo Museum NK
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Koryo Dynasty935-1392 CE

• Civil service system develops
• Exams, but still hereditary elite

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Flowering of ArtsCeledon pottery
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Flowering of Arts

• Buddhism the national religion and dominant
  influence
• Buddhist artwork
• Koreana Tripitaka
• Heinsa Temple

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Moveable type invented

• But not much used
• Shipping Developed in the 1100s
• Sextant
• Deep water navigation

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Koryo Occupied by Mongols 1231

• Guerilla resistance until 1270
• Mongols oversee building of 900 ships attack
  Japan 1270s (Korean sailors)

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Koryo Occupied by Mongols 1231

• Ming dynasty in China overthrows Mongols in 1368.
• Koryo elites vacillate between loyalty to Ming
  and to Mongols.

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Koryo Collapse

• Yi Seung-kye is dispatched to repel Ming attack
• Yis coup
• Ming alliance
• New Chosun Dynasty (named by Ming emperor)
  1392-1910