HIST 2710 Lecture Notes - Stone Age, Sinocentrism, Ainu People
Document Summary
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely john action. Confucian scholar-officials to remind ruler to be virtuous. Early japan: japanese reception of east asian civilization. Central plains chronology: (sino-centric belief that civilization started in northern china, wrong) example: bronze age in vietnam came before china. 20 000 bce 10 000 bce palaeolithic. Old stone ave vs. new stone age. People/ ape deliberately strike them against one another to produce sharp age to serve a purpose (making a knife) More is done to the stone, more advanced, in the new stone age. We don"t know where these people came from. 10 000 bce 300 bce, new stone age. The pottery would be seen with impressions of parallel lines of ropes. Used to live all over the japanese island. Japanese rulers pushed these people towards to north. 300 bce 300 ce yayoi (asian mainland immigrants?) in the 1950s, subway was being built and workers reported finding artefacts that were different from the jomon.
