World History › Section J · India, the Indian Ocean, and East Asia › Topic J.3
Border states: Sogdiana, Korea, and Japan
On the edges of Tang China lay societies that traded with it, learned from it and kept their own character. This topic follows the Sogdian merchants of Central Asia, Korea from Unified Silla to Goryeo, and Japan from the Taika reforms to its first warrior government.
In this topic
- Sogdiana: cities of merchants
- Sogdians abroad
- Worked example: the Sogdian Ancient Letters
- Sogdiana's fate
- Unified Silla
- From Silla to Goryeo
- Japan builds a state
- Worked example: how Chinese was Nara Japan?
- The Heian court
- Samurai and the first shogun
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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