Index of Topics for All Time Periods

>4000 BCE

CHINA
Early Humans | Neolithic Period (Yangshao) | Crops
JAPAN
Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods (Jomon)
KOREA
Neolithic Period
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Neolithic Period
SOUTH ASIA
Mesolithic and Neolithic Period; Indus / Early Harappan

4000-1000 BCE

CHINA
Neolithic Period | Xia, Shang, Zhou | Oracle Bones/Writing | Divination | Bronze Casting | Warfare | Women: Childbearing | Bronzes and Jades
JAPAN
Neolithic Period (Jomon) | Origin Myths in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki | Shinto
KOREA
Neolithic Period | Origin Myths
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Neolithic Period and Bronze Age
SOUTH ASIA
Neolithic Period; Indus/Early Harappan | Harappan/Vedic Period | The Indus Script | Sculpture and Figurines

1000 BCE-300 CE

CHINA
Zhou and Warring States | Qin Unification | Han Consolidation; The Silk Road | Language / Caligraphy | Confucianism, Daoism | Mecius, Legalism | Silk, Paper, Porcelain | Warfare | Agriculture, Foreign Relations | Women and Family | Classic of Odes
JAPAN
Neolithic Period (Jomon) | Yayoi, the People of Wa | Origin Myths in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki | Shinto | Pimiko, Queen of Wa
KOREA
Bronze Age (Old Choson), Iron Age (Conquest by Chinese Han Dynasty) | Early Three Kingdoms / Silla | Origin Myths
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Bronze Age and Iron Age (Dongson; Conquest by Chinese Han Dynasty) | Si Vuong (Shi Xie) | Women Warriors (The Tru'ng Sisters)
SOUTH ASIA
Vedic Period / Indo-Gangetic; Nanda | Mauryan, Kushan, Shunga | Early Hinduism | Early Buddhism | Early Jainism | Global Trade | Mahabharata, Ramayana

300-600 CE

CHINA
Period of Disunity | Spread of Buddhism | Women: Ballad of Mulan | Literature: Wan Can, Tao Qian
JAPAN
Kofun (Tomb) Period | Asuka Period | Buddhism Reaches Japan
KOREA
Three Kingdoms Period: Koguro, Paekche, Silla | Buddhism Reaches Korea | Sondok, Silla Queen
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Bronze Age and Iron Age (Chinese Rule Continues in Viet Regions) | Buddhism and Hinduism in Mainland Southeast Asia
SOUTH ASIA
Gupta Empire | Buddhism | The Puranas | Gupta Buddhist Sculpture and Hindu Temples
 

600-1000 CE

CHINA
Sui, Tang, Liao | Silk Road; Xuanzang's Pilgrimage to India | Spread of Buddhism; Buddhism in China | Islam in China | Scholar-Officials | Rulership, Laws, Taxes | Silk, Paper, Porcelain | Poetry about War | Silk Road Trade; Slavery | Women and Family | Tang Poets: Wang Wei, Li Bo, Du Fu | Journey to the West (Tale of Monkey) | Cave Paintings; Calligraphy; Music
JAPAN
Asuka Period | Nara Period, Heian Period | Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji | Buddhism in Japan | Japanese Missions to Tang China; Prince Shōtoku's Constitution | Waka (Tanka) Poetry | The Tale of Genji | Emaki (Picture Scrolls)
KOREA
Unified Silla; Koryŏ | Injunctions of King T'aejo | Mechanical Toys | Two Silla Queens: Sondok and Chindok | Oral Poetry of Silla
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Chinese Rule Continues under Tang Dynasty | Chữ Nôm | Cao Vuong
SOUTH ASIA
Powerful Regional States | Islam Enters India | Chola Bronzes

1000-1450 CE

CHINA
Song, Liao, Jin | Yuan: Mongols Marco Polo | Ming | Neo-Confucianism | Neo-Confucian Reform | China under Khubilai Khan | Ming Promotion of Social Order | "Rainbow Bridge" | Astronomy | Other Inventions and Exchange East and West | Military Technology | Agriculture; Growth of Cities | Ming Voyages | Homes and Gardens | Women | Literature: Yue Fei, Sima Guang, Su Shi, Li Qingzhao | Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics
JAPAN
Late Heian Period | Kamakura, Muromachi | Mongol Naval Campaigns | New Buddhist Sects | Order during Political Transition | The Tale of the Heike | An Account of My Hut, by Chōmei | Kenkō's Essays in Idleness | Noh and Kyōgen | Tea | Scroll Painting |
KOREA
Koryŏ | Chosŏn; King Sejong | Hangul, the Korean Script | Neo-Confucian Anti-Buddhism | Chosŏn Land Reform | Slave Status | Literature | Koryŏ and Chosŏn Ceramics
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
End of Chinese rule; Ly and Tran dominate | Religious Poetry of Tran Ming Tong
SOUTH ASIA 1000-1450
Powerful Regional States | Development of Urdu | Islam in Northern India | Bhakti Poets

1450-1750

CHINA
Ming, Qing | Ming Neo-Confucianism | Moral Instruction | Christianity Enters China | Qing Government | Astronomy | Other Inventions and Exchange East and West | Advanced Economy; Silver Trade | Homes and Gardens | Women | Qing Literature | Painting
JAPAN
Muromachi | Momoyama, Edo | Edicts of the Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese-Dutch Trade | Social Hierarchy in Tokugawa Society: Samurai, Merchants | Women | Comic Prose, Verse | Matsuo Bashō | Bunraku; Kabuki | Cultivated Samurai | Chanoyu (Tea Ceremony) | Kano, Rinpa, Ukiyo-e
KOREA
Chosŏn | Admiral Yi Sun-Shin | Slavery; Genealogy | Neo-Confucian Reforms Women
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Vietnam's Independent Period | Mac Scholar-Officials | Lê Defends Itself against Champa
SOUTH ASIA
Deccan Sultanates; Mughal Dynasty | Sikhism; Akbar's Universal Religion | Bhakti Poets | Women | Taj Mahal; Mughal Court Painting

1750-1919

CHINA
Qing | "Self-Strengthening" | Radical Social Reform | May Fourth Movement | Taiping Rebellion | Internal Crisis; Famine | Reform to Revolution | Sino-Japanese War | China and Europe | China and the U.S. | Homes and Gardens | Western Views of Chinese Women | Painting
JAPAN
Edo, Meiji | Reflections on Japan's Modernization | Meiji Charter Oath and Constitution | Sino-Japanese War | Russo-Japanese War | Japanese-Dutch Trade | Commodore Perry | Japanese Immigrants to the U.S. | Codes of Merchant Houses | Food and Identity | Natsume Sôseki and the "I" Novel | Silent Films | Ukiyo-e; Japonisme
KOREA
Chosŏn | Japanese Rule | Chosŏn Reformers | Reactions to the West | Tonghak Uprising | Queen Min
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Nguyen Unites Vietnam | French Rule | Family vs. Nation: Hoang Cao Khai and Phan Dinh Phung | Nguyen Court's Examination System | Economy of the South during the Rule of Trinh and Nguyen, 1770s
SOUTH ASIA
Mughal Dynasty | British Rule | South Asian Diaspora | Women | Court Painting; "Company" Painting

1900-1950

CHINA
May Fourth Movement | Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution | Rebuilding China | Communism in China | Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | Mao Zedong on Warfare | Women during the Republican Era | Raising Children | Farmers and the Chinese Revolution | Literature: Lu Xun, Mao Dun | Graphic Arts
JAPAN
Meiji, Taisho, Showa | Nationalism and Propaganda | Russo-Japanese War | World War I | World War II | Japanese American Internment | The Atomic Bomb | American Occupation | Shiseido: Changing Ideals of Feminine Beauty | Akutagawa Ryunosuke | Silent Films
KOREA
Japanese Rule | Korean Communist Party | Stories about the Colonial Experience | "Comfort Women"
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
French Rule | 1945 Declaration of Independence | Striving for Modernity: The Haircut | New Generation of Poets
SOUTH ASIA
British Rule | Independence and Partition | South Asian Diaspora

1950-2000

CHINA
People's Republic of China | "Hundred Flowers" Period | Land Reform, Socialized Agriculture,The Great Leap Forward | Cultural Revolution | Socialism and Democracy after Mao Zedong | Tiananmen Square Demonstrations | Religion in China Today | Political System since 1949 | Foreign Policy | U.S.-China Relations | Population Trends | Autobiographies about Life in China after 1949 | Graphic Arts
JAPAN
Showa, Heisei | Government and Politics | Postwar Military Policy | Japan and the World after World War II | Japan's Economy, Postwar and Beyond | The New Middle Class | Kawabata Yasunari
KOREA
Korean War and the Division of Korea | Korea in the 21st Century | Christianity | Postwar South Korea | Kim Dae-Jung | Kim Ilsŏng and North Korea
Security on the Korean Peninsula | Korean Immigrants in the U.S. | Political Satire
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Vietnam War | Socialist Republic of Vietnam Entrepreneurial Families
SOUTH ASIA
Republic of India Islamic Republic of Pakistan | India's Democracy | South Asian Diaspora | Traditional Arts

21st Century

CHINA
Education Websites of Major News Media | Chinese News Media | Curriculum: Focus on China | Curriculum: World Issues
JAPAN
Education Websites of Major News Media | Japanese News Media | Curriculum: Focus on Japan | Curriculum: World Issues
KOREA
Education Websites of Major News Media | Korean News Media | Curriculum: Focus on Korea | Curriculum: World Issues
VIETNAM & SE ASIA
Education Websites of Major News Media | Southeast Asian News Media | Curriculum Resources
SOUTH ASIA
Education Websites of Major News Media | South Asian News Media | Curriculum Resources
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