CHAPTER 14 Asian Nations in Motion

1300-1650

China: The Ming Dynasty The Early Ming Era Ming Society and Culture in the Sixteenth

Century Ming Decline

Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society The Beginning of the Chosôn Dynasty

Japan: From Warring States to Centralized Feudalism Warring States Tokugawa Shogunate Economic and Social Changes: The

Western Factor Cultural Expressions

Southeast Asia: States Within a Region Burma and the Thais Vietnam Indonesia Arrival of the Europeans

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND The characteristics of Chinese culture under

the Ming dynasty. Korea under the Silla, Koryo, and Yi

dynasties.

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND What Japan was like during the Ashikaga

and early Tokugawa shogunates. The geographical influences on Southeast

Asia, the outside influences that determined its direction, and the pattern of rivalries that kept the region divided.