1000 BCE - 300 CE: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, & Giant Empires
Western Zhou ca. 1,046 to 771 BCE
Eastern Zhou ca. 771 to 256 BCE
Qin 221 to 206 BCE
Han 206 BCE to 220 CE
Neolithic Japan, Jomon ca. 10,500 to 300 BCE
Yayoi ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE
Bronze Age Korea ca.900 to 300 BCE - Iron Age from ca.300 BCE - Three Kingdoms, Silla
57 BCE
Bronze Age and Iron Age Southeast Asia ca. 1,500 to 500 CE
Vedic Period ca. 1,900 to 800 BCE
Mahajanapadas, Nanda ca.800 to 300 BCE
Mauryan ca.323 to 185 BCE
Kushan, Shunga
Vietnam & SE Asia

VIETNAM & SE ASIA 1000 BCE-300 CE
VIETNAM & SOUTHEAST ASIA: HISTORY-ARCHAEOLOGY

Bronze Age and Iron Age (Dongson Culture; Conquest by Chinese Han Dynasty; Revolt of the Tru'ng Sisters)

Bronze Age, ca. 1,500 to 500 CE; Iron Age, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE
ca. 111 BCE, Chinese emperor Han Wudi conquers southern kingdom of Nanyue;

Vietnam [Asia Society]
"A short essay on Vietnam's geopolitical history, from pre-civilization times to the 20th century."

Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea [Asia Society]
More than 100 online images reflecting "archaeological evidence [of] a Southeast Asian trading system that dates to at least the second millennium BCE and Vietnam’s central place in it from earliest times. The broad distribution of bronze drums created by the early culture of Dong Son and the Sa Huynh culture’s jewelry found outside Viet Nam support Viet Nam’s important position in this early interchange. By the beginning of the Common Era, it is clear that Viet Nam also conducted regular exchange with India and China. Along with the advantages of these commercial transactions came the exchange of both technologies and ideas and beliefs, including concepts of statecraft and the introduction of foreign religions."

Southeast Asia, 1,000 B.C.-1 A.D. [Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
"Villages evolve into settled cultures and, by the middle of this period, stratified societies with centralized rule have developed on mainland Southeast Asia. The large drums produced by the Dongson culture in northern Vietnam are among the most distinctive artifacts of the period." With a period overview, list of key events, and six related artworks.

Southeast Asia, 1-500 A.D. [Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
"Expanding international trade characterizes this period in Southeast Asia: Indonesian outriggers travel to the East African coast; Indian ceramics and glass beads are found in Bali and on the mainland; Chinese mirrors and Roman coins have been excavated in Cambodia; and horses from the Kushans in northwest India were imported." With a period overview, list of key events, and seven related artworks.

ca. 39-43 CE, Chinese control briefly challenged by revolt of the sisters Tru'ng Trac and Tru'ng Nhi
Primary Source w/DBQsExcerpts from The Complete Compilation of the Collected Writings about the Departed Spirits of the Viêt Realm: Sovereigns, The Tru'ng Sisters [PDF] [Asia for Educators]

See the Society section, below, for more about the Tru'ng sisters.

GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

Si Vuong (137-226 CE)

Primary Source w/DBQsSi Vuong (Shi Xie) [PDF] [Asia for Educators]
In the early third century CE, as the Han empire to the north began to crumble, in northern Vietnam the Shi family led by Shi Xie (known to later Vietnamese as Si Vuong or King Si [137-226 CE]) maintained stability and prosperity in the region.

SOCIETY

Women Warriors

When Heroism is Not Enough: Three Women Warriors of Vietnam, Their Historians, and World History [World History Connected, University of Illinois]
"[T]he lives of women warriors are of interest precisely because they offer an opportunity to study the histories of women warriors represented by academicians, poets, revolutionaries, and scholars whose views of the 'second sex' were shaped by changing forces such as rising patriarchal or feminist writing. In this context, the lives of three Vietnamese solder-women, the two Tru'ng sisters (Tru'ng Trac and Tru'ng Nhi) and Triêu Thi Trinh have much to offer."


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