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History of Korea
(DongYi동이東夷) or (Yemk예맥濊貊Nation)
Prehistory
Archaeological evidence shows that hominids first inhabited the Korean Peninsula 700,000 years ago, though some North Koreans claim it may have been inhabited for 1,000,000 years. Tool-making artifacts from the Palaeolithic period (700,000 BC to 40,000 BC) have been found in present-day North Hamgyong, South P'yongan, Gyeonggi, and north and south Chungcheong Provinces. The people were cave dwellers and built homes, using fire for cooking food and warmth. They hunted, gathered and fished with stone tools.
Jeulmun Pottery Period
The earliest known Korean pottery dates back to around 8000 BC. or before, and evidence of Mesolithic Pit-Comb Ware culture or Yungimun Pottery is found throughout the peninsula. An example of a Yungimun-era site is the Gosan-ni in Jeju-do. Jeulmun or Comb-pattern Pottery is found after 7000 BC, and pottery with comb-patterns over the whole vessel is found concentrated at sites in West-central Korea between 0000-000 BC, a time when a number of settlements such as Amsa-dong(암사동) existed. Jeulmun pottery bears basic design and form similarities to the Jōmon culture in Japan and to that of the Russian Maritime Province, Mongolia, and the Amur River and Sungari River basins of Manchuria.
Mumun Pottery Period
Archaeological evidence demonstrates that agricultural societies and the earliest forms of social-political complexity emerged in the Mumun Pottery Period (c. 1500-300 BC). People in southern Korea adopted intensive dry-field and paddy-field agriculture with a multitude of crops in the Early Mumun Period (1500-850 BC). The first societies led by big-men or chiefs emerged in the Middle Mumun (850-550 BC), and the first ostentatious elite burials can be traced to the Late Mumun (c. 550-300 BC). Bronze production began in the Middle Mumun and became increasingly important in Mumun ceremonial and political society after 700 BC. The Mumun is the first time that villages rose, became large, and then fell: some important examples include Songguk-ri, Daepyeong, and Igeum-dong. The increasing presence of long-distance trade, an increase in local conflicts, and the introduction of bronze and iron metallurgy are trends denoting the end of the Mumun around 300 BC.
Go-Joseon (BC 2333-108 BC)
Go-joseon was the first country to be formed in Korea. Its patriarch was Dangun Wanggom, who established the kingdom in 2333 B.C. Gojoseon first developed with the Liaoning district as its center and gradually rose as a center of the East.
Jin state
was an early Iron Age state which occupied some portion of the southern Korean peninsula during the 2nd and 3rd centuries BCE, bordering the Korean kingdom Gojoseon to the north. Its capital was somewhere south of the Han River. It preceded the Samhan confederacies, each of which claimed to be successors of the Jin state.However, Sin Chaeho insisted in his book Joseon Sanggosa that Jin was the same exact nation as Jinjoseon; which, historically, was one of the three confederacies of Gojoseon. The Chinese usually say "Jin" they referring to Jinjoseon, but say "Joseon" when referring to Byeonjoseon More research may be required for the exact identification of the Jin state, due to inconsistencies in historical records relating to the Jin state. By modern times, Jin in historical records may refer to any one of the three governing bodies: Jinhan, Jinjoseon or Gaemaguk.
Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea (BC108-57 BC)
(Buyeo, Okjeo, Dongye,Samhan: Ma, Byeon, Jin)
refers to the period after the fall of Gojoseon and before the maturation of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla into full-fledged kingdoms. It is a subdivision of what is traditionally called Korea's Three Kingdoms Period.Generally considered the first three centuries of the Common Era, it is the latter part of the Iron age in Korea, and sometimes called the Samhan period, referring to the three confederacies in the central and southern Korean Peninsula. During this period, Baekje and Silla overtook the Samhan, and Goguryeo expanded in the north, destroying the last Chinese commandery at Lelang.
Three Kingdoms of Korea (57 BC 668 AD)
The Three Kingdoms of Korea (Hangul: 삼국시대) refer to the ancient Korean kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE. The Three Kingdoms period ran from 57 BC until Silla's triumph over Goguryeo in 668, which marked the beginning of the North and South States period (남북국시대) of Unified Silla in the South and Balhae in the North.The earlier part of this period, before the three states developed into full-fledged kingdoms, is sometimes called Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea.
North South States Period (698 CE - 936 CE)
Unified Silla (668 CE - 935 CE)
Later Three Kingdoms of Korea (892 CE - 936 CE)
Goryeo (918 CE - 1392 CE)
Joseon (1392 CE - 1897 CE)
Korean (1897 - 1910)
Age
51
Country
South Korea
