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Koryo Dynasty 935-1392 CE. Factionalism and corruption weaken Silla DynastyTang China collapses leaving Silla without a protectorThe Sadae principle fails them??Restoration movements in both Baekche and KoguryoBoth gain independence. Transition: Later Baekche. Later Baekche emergesPrince im
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1. KoreaKoryo to Chosun935 CE + 17
2. 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
3. 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
4. Transition: Later Koguryo Later Koguryo emerges under King Wang Kon
Takes over the lower half of Parhae (lower half of the early Koguryo nation)
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Koryo Dynasty Farming done by tenants and SLAVES
1/3 of Koryo population classified as slaves
9. Koryo Dynasty:Golden 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
10. Koryo Dynasty935-1392 CE Civil service system develops
Exams, but still hereditary elite
11. Flowering of Arts:Celedon pottery
14. Flowering of Arts: Buddhist artwork
Koreana Tripitaka
Heinsa Temple
16. Moveable type invented But not much used
Shipping Developed in the 1100s
Sextant
Deep water navigation
17. Koryo Occupied by Mongols: 1231 Guerilla resistance until 1270
Mongols oversee building of 900 ships & attack Japan 1270s (Korean sailors)
18. Koryo Occupied by Mongols: 1231 Ming dynasty in China overthrows Mongols in 1368.
Koryo elites vacillate between loyalty to Ming and to Mongols.
19. Koryo Collapse Yi Seung-kye is dispatched to repel Ming attack
Yis coup
Ming alliance
New Chosun Dynasty (named by Ming emperor) 1392-1910