HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hongwu Emperor, Zheng He, Kowtow
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Recent research reminds the diversity of the diversity of women"s experiences age, status, economics and geography. Aimed to create an even more confusion society with korean characteristics. Recognition as china being the hegemon at the top of the hierarchy. Chinese believed they were the center of their culture and if you did not follow their system you were not worth their time. China was in the center, and as you ventured further out your more. China was in the center, and as you ventured further out your more and more barbaric. Part of china ( the inner core of chinese influence) Did not have to be a confucian culture to participate in the tributary system. Cheaper to join system than going to war. Korea will model its society off of this system. Japan will import thousands of books and transfers chinese language. Leigh dynasty overthrew previous dynasty, needed vesture from the chinese. Vietnam was created by flipping manteiv"s name around.
