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History of Asia. Detail of Chinese silk from the 4th century BCE. The characteristic trade of silk through the Silk Road connected various regions from China, India, Central Asia, and the Middle East to Europe and Africa. The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia ...
The continent of Asia, home to the majority of the world's population and countries as diverse as China, South Korea and India, has thousands of years of rich history.
3 days ago · Asia is the world’s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface of Earth, has the longest coastline of any continent, and is subject overall to the world’s widest climatic extremes.
- Wars in Asia That Changed History. Over the centuries, many wars have been fought in the vast area known as Asia. Some stand out in history, such as the Opium Wars and the Sino-Japanese War, both of which took place in the last half of 19th century.
- Protests and Massacres. From the An-Lushan Uprising in the 8th century to the Quit India movement of the 20th and beyond, Asian people have risen in protest of their governments innumerable times.
- Historic Natural Disasters in Asia. Asia is a tectonically active place. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis are among the natural dangers inherent to the area.
- The Arts in Asia. The creative minds of Asia have brought the world a huge number of stunningly beautiful art forms. From music, theater, and dance, to painting and pottery, the people of Asia have created some of the most memorable art the world has seen.
- Geographical Divisions
- Cultural Divisions
- Prehistoric
- Ancient – Conquests, New Empires, and New Religions
- Middle Ages – Realms and Societies
- Early Modern – Self-Fashioning and Transcultural encounters
- Modern
- Contemporary Asian Cultures in A Global Context
Here are the major subdivisions currently used in textbooks or in curatorial departments in art museums. Keep in mind that these categories are complicated by previous divisions, some of which reflect a violent history, such as campaigns of colonization by Western or Asian countries. Central and North Asia, comprising territories bordered by the Ca...
A radically different way of looking at Asia’s cultural histories is to trace major transcultural phenomena — from religious to commercial — that spanned multiple periods and geographical regions. Such phenomena include: 1. Buddhism, which developed in India in reaction to the established religion, Hinduism, and subsequently spread to other countri...
The term “prehistoric” refers to the time before written history. In Asia as elsewhere, this is the period when the most fundamental aspects of human civilization as we know it are formed and developed. Communities transition from hunting and gathering to taming animals and cultivating land, especially as irrigation is mastered. Prehistoric men and...
The ancient world is often thought of as a cradle of today’s civilizations. It is home to important “firsts” and to changes that shaped cultural practices and artistic expressions. In Asia as elsewhere, it is a period of military conquests that contributed to the formation of the first great empires, which quickly became cultural hubs — sites of ef...
The concept of the “Middle Ages” has been developed in relation to Western cultures to mark a period between antiquity and the Renaissance that presents a degree of consistency not encountered in Asia during the same period. In the “Middle Ages” as during other timeframes, different Asian regions had considerably different histories. That said, acr...
As old empires consolidated their power and new rulers and dynasties emerged, this period saw some of the most remarkable expressions of self-fashioning. Coined by art historian Stephen Greenblatt with respect to the Western Renaissance (in particular, 16th-century England), “self-fashioning” is an apt term to describe cultural processes in Asia ar...
The 19th century brought major changes to Asia’s many worlds. By the mid-20th century, societies had undergone watershed transformations. In Japan, following the 1853 “black ship” expedition of American commodore Perry who demanded Japan’s “opening” to the world and the 1868 revolt that put an end to the Tokugawa shogunate and restored imperial pow...
In an interconnected art world whose online presence and international fairs and biennials make regional identities more elusive than ever before, contemporary Asian art presents an extremely diverse range of individual styles and expressions. That said, internationally acclaimed artists like Subodh Gupta (Indian, b. 1964) and Takashi Murakami (Jap...
Asia in 1200 AD, just before the Mongol Empire. Map of Asia, 1892. The history of Asia can be seen as the history of several distinct regions, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East that have more or less context depending of the situation in the central Eurasian steppe. The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest ...
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Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia.
