Transcript Korea and Russia

Korea and Russia
By: Amanda Tuazon, Harold Ho, Nishchala
Singhal, and Lauren Loanzon
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Political Korea
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China influenced Korea with various governmental
methods based on Confucian belief
Paid tribute to Chinese Yi dynasty in power
1644: Became a vassal state of China under Qing
Dynasty
After Japan invaded Korea, yangban (nobility) laid
claim in tax paying land
Government accepted Confucian idea that agriculture
should be basis of state wealth and that merchants
should occupy lowly positions because lack of moral
character
Political Russia
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Major power of Europe by
1750
Free from Mongols, Prince
Ivan IV conquered the
Golden Horde and pushed
borders back
1547: used title tsar (from
the Roman imperial title
“caesar”)
1689: Treaty of Nerchinsk:
Russia claimed west of
Mongolia but withdrew
settlements east
Cossacks kept their political
autonomy by rebelling tsars
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17th cent: tsar tried to build
political power and est.
control over Siberians and
the steppe
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Centralized power rose,
peasants freedom fell
Political Russia
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Under Golden Horde,
Moscow: most important
Russian city and center
of political power
Moscovy rulers and tsars
rewarded nobles with
land grants including
obligations of peasants to
work for lords
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Long warfare in 16th -17th
century caused disruption
and peasants fled to
Cossacks or across the
Urals
Land based flourished;
added rich populated
lands to west, south, and
east
Social/Gender Korea
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During the Choson
dynasty, social
hierarchy.
Highest class was the
king and royal family.
Second class made of
military officials and
land owners
(yangban).
Social/Gender Korea
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Third class made of
workers with specialized
skills (artisans, etc.).
Called the jungin.
Fourth class was the
commoners: largest
class. Had to pay taxes,
provide labor, and serve
in the military.
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The lowest class was
made of people such as
slaves, entertainers,
shamans, outcasts &
criminals.
Social/Gender Korea
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In accordance with
Confucian principles,
women were not
educated.
A woman’s duty was
to manage the house:
cooking, sewing, and
taking care of the
children.
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Women were not
considered equal to
men.
Social/Gender Russia
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Branch of Slavic people of
Eastern Europe
Pioneers in Siberia dealt
with animal pelts
Expansion led to people
with different languages,
religions, and ethnicities
Some people spoke Asian
languages and non
christians
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Religious and cultural
differences caused social
tensions
Occupations: farmers,
hunters, builders, scribes,
merchants, herders,
caravan workers, soldiers
Very diverse
Cossacks: warriors; very
diverse; cared about good
militatry skills
ocial/Gender Russia
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Cossacks: majority of
soldiers and early settlers
Aristocracy: boyars
Law change in 1649 bound
peasants to their land; turned
peasants into serfs
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Serfdom: hereditary
status, brutal, and
widespread
1723: all slaves
transformed into serfs
1795: serfs were half the
population
Tolerated diversity
Social structure compared
to hierarchial slave
plantations
Rulers: absolute in
powers, limited by big
empires and bureaucracy
and corruption
Economic Korea
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Korea accepted a subordinate
relationship with China and paid
tribute to the Chinese dynasty in
power.
By the 1400s artisans in Korea
were producing high-quality
pottery with glazes called
porcelain which developed into
an important popular trade
product.
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Through revived overland
routes of communication from
Korea to Central Asia, foreign
trade was encouraged.
Economic Russia
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As empire expanded it incorporated a more diverse
population
Land grants +obligated peasant workers to loyal
nobles
2 week change period encouraged well treatment of
peasants
Rising commercialization increased value of labor
obligations
16th-early 17th century civil & foreign warfare caused
disruption, economic decline and peasants to flee
Russia and Korea
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No actual contact during
this time period
Similarity back in the time
of Mongol domination, like
Russia, during the Yi
regime of Korea they
rejected Mongol rule for
they sought to reestablish
a local identity
Works Cited
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http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/world/asia/korea/
AD1392-1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History-of-Korea
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_bo
yar_from_XVII_century.JPG