1. Confucianism in Japan and Chin
... government for the next 2,000 years. China, with its centralized government, its advanced level of civilization and its long periods of peace and unity was enormously important as a center of the developing civilizations of such countries as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Tibet. With a centralized aristocratic government and an economy based on agriculture dating as far back as 1766 BC, Chinese culture was far more ... changed to fit the needs of these developing cultures outside of China's border of direct influence. During the first and second century AD, Japan had almost no cultural and ...
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