EASIA101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Turkic Languages, Northeast Asia, Korean Language
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The largest kingdom the first to be aware of it"s place in international politics and the first to grow as a state. Became a centre of northeast asia and a leader in stuggeles against china. Fell to tang (618-906 china-silla alliance: paeche (18 bce - 660 ce) Southwest along with silla, paeche"s foreign policy at first largely aimed at stopping southern adavance of koguryi. Both paeche and silla turned at different points to sui (589-618) then tang (618-906) china for help in doing so. However, paeche eventually came to ally with koguryo as wall as japan against silla as silla strengthened. Last to develop culturally but developed fairly rapidly in various ways over the 6th and 7th centuries. 631 ce tang expansion of school facilities in the silla capital. Reported that 1000"s of students from the three kingdoms and even tibet and turfan came. First, the tang-silla forces defeat paekche in 660 the koguryo in 668.