HIST 218 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Yangban, House Of Yi, Edo Period
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Exam will be 1hour and 30mins long. There will be 7 questions, you must answer 5 questions. Questions are broad rather than focused on details, looking at historical trajectories. The distinctive geographical characteristics of china (continental), japan (insular), korea (peninsular), and vietnam (peninsular/continental) affected the historical development of each country. The west and north of what is china today are dominated by mountains, steppe lands, plateaus, and deserts: these areas were predominantly settled in the past by nomadic peoples, over the course of. Chinese history, nomadic peoples from china"s border regions have often intruded upon the settled, agricultural civilization of core china, and in recent centuries, chinese farmers have settled in the interior regions. River in the north and of the mekong river in the south: historically, different groups held power respectively in the northern, central, and southern regions of vietnam. Japan is an island country composed of four main islands and thousands of smaller ones.
