The society of this period was dominated by the yangban, a hereditary aristocratic class of land-owning civil servants, and Buddhism was replaced by Neo-Confucianism.
The society of this period was dominated by the yangban, a hereditary aristocratic class of land-owning civil servants, and Buddhism was replaced by Neo-Confucianism. Under this successor to the Koryo dynasty, the phonetic Hangul alphabet was adopted and the capital was moved to Hanyang. Forced to pay tribute to both the Ming and Ch'ing rulers to the north, FTP, what was this dynasty that ruled Korea from 1392 until it was annexed by Japan in 1910?
The society of this period was dominated by the yangban, a hereditary aristocratic class of land-owning civil servants, and Buddhism was replaced by Neo-Confucianism.
{Choson} or {Yi}