What are some of the examples of states that experienced economic and political development that grew on the edges of the empires? How were they influenced by their neighboring empires?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Japan
1. developed into a state system, under the stimulus of contacts with China
2. one of the Japanese states, Yamatai, conquered the others, under the rule of a female shaman
a. first inkling we have of a unified Japanese state
B. Korea
1. developed faster than Japan
2. Chinese were in touch with three Korean states
3. not enough sources or evidence to describe political history
4. grave goods reveal something of the nature of power and trade
a. iron weapons, fabulous gold diadems and chains, bronze ornaments that imitate Chinese work
C. Scythians and Sarmatians
1. pastoral peoples whose lands bordered the Roman and Persian empires
2. pastoralists were familiar trading partners
3. Greek and Celtic goods filled the graves of Scythian and Sarmatian princes
4. Greek craftsmen depicted nomads in everyday scenes
5. Sarmatian queen of the first century C.E. stares, in Greek clothes and hairstyle, from the center of a gold crown
6. happy in their own traditions and envious of the sedentary empires
D. proximity of empires was a sufficient, though not necessary, condition for new states to thrive
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