CHINA AND KOREA

Timeline

Shang Dynasty 1600-1050 B.C.E Bronze age

Created elaborately decorated vessels using piece-mold casting process

Zhou and Qin 1050-206 B.C.E Longest dynasty Bronze, lacquer, and jade work Terracotta army

Han &Period of Disunity 206 B.C.E-581 C.E

Extended boundaries east and west, traded indirectly with Romans via the Silk Road

Terracotta models of Han dynasty houses

Disunity caused by civil strife

Appearance of the first images of the Buddha

Six canons of Chinese painting

Tang Dynasty 618-907 C.E

Cosmopolitan Golden age of painting Silla kingdom for Korea

Song Dynasty 960-1279 C.E

Capital at Lin’an was the most technologically advanced at the time

Landscape painting Tallest wooden building, Foguang Si Pagoda