Asia History
The history of the Eastern Hemisphere was Asia Centered for many reasons. Asia is one of the oldest continents to have found proof of complex societies between 3500 to 500 B.C.E. They had their own agriculture community and were most commonly found near water sources so it was easier to irrigate their crops. These complex societies were organized, had wealth, social status, paid taxes, had roads, temples, and palaces. They also had writing systems and religions. One of the main reasons the world was Asia-centered until the 1700's was because of their long record of inhabiting the earth. The earliest societies of human society were found in Asia. 120,000 to 25,000 years ago Homo sapiens inhabited parts of Southeast Asia. These early humans had very good survival skills. They used very sophisticated tools and language. Asia had a very successful agriculture system b 5000 BCE. It consisted of Wheat, barley, cattle, sheep, goat, pigs, millet, rice, soybeans, mulberry, chickens, bananas, yams, peas, rice, and oxen. With the expansion of agriculture villages and towns came about throughout the Yellow River and Yangzi River valleys. The earliest Dynasty that took control of most of China was the Xia Dynasty.
For most of history the Mongols, nomadic people, lived in eastern central Europe. Around the 1200's Temujin organized the various Mongol tribes into the largest empire the world had ever seen. They recognized his great leadership and named him Chinggis Khan, which means universal ruler. He began a conquest for China in 1211. The Song dynasty was still ruling China at the time. By 1220 the Mongols had largely established control over China. The Mongols made a lot of changes in China. They ended privileges of Confucian scholars and dismantled the educational and examination system. The Mongol decline began in 1335. During the Shang Dynasty writing was extensively used. Writing served the interest of rulers. They kept written accounts on silk and bamboo of important events. There was also early Chinese literature during these times. It was hard for China to have communication with neighboring societies due to the high mountain ranges, deserts, and seas that stood between China and other early societies. Ancient China did find ways to influence other societies. The first great Chinese thinker who addressed the problems of political and social order was Kong Fuzi. He is also known as Confucius in English. He thought that the best way to fill government jobs was with well-educated and highly conscientious individuals. He focused on Junzi (superior individuals) There were five basic relationships between the superior an inferior status. The task of the inferior was to be totally loving, loyal, and obedient to superior. The wife was inferior to her husband. The children were inf! In 1368 the bubonic plague hit China. The Mongols left China and they once again had control over themselves. In 1368 Hongwu became emperor and started the Ming dynasty. This dynasty ruled until 1644. For almost 30 years the Ming dynasty sponsored 7 explorations. There were two main purposes for these explorations. One was to impose imperial control over foreign trade with China and to impress foreign people. The explorations were seized in the 1430's for a number of reasons. In 1700's the history of not just the Eastern Hemisphere but of the entire world was just starting to become European -centered. The main reason is because of European's eagerness to tra
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