KOREA101R Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Four Commanderies Of Han, Bc3, Filial Piety
13 Feb 2014
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Similar to northern china (beijing), dissimilar to japan. Higher altitudes on the eastern side of. Altaic mountains in eastern europe origin of current people in sk, these people moved to korea and japan. Paleo-asiatic started korean ethnic development half a million years ago. Subject+object+verb (altaic word order) as opposed to. Paleolithic -> old stone age 2. 5 million years ago. Anima -> animalistic belief of living things having spirits, basis in. Shaman"s can control the spirits in the world. North asia and in many different religions and beliefs world wide. Old chosun at the beginning of korean history, new chosun the last kingdom. Korean comes from altaic language family (turkish, mongolian, tungus (northern asian), manchu (ching. China, japan, korea -> share much vocabulary but not grammar. Korea used chinese writing system until the 15th century. Korean in modern day due to previous pertinence in society. Japanese modified chinese characters to create their own writing.
