A Korean official's robe, a dallyeong, from the last years of the Joseon dynasty, around 1900
Dallyeong (Official’s robe), late 19th–early 20th century
Marked Hanyang (Seoul)

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Joseon Korea and Hangul

The Joseon dynasty ruled Korea for five centuries. In 1443 King Sejong created Hangul, an alphabet designed so that anyone could learn to read, which Korea still uses.

Place
Hanyang (Seoul) · GyeongbokgungAsia
Laid out as
A dynastyA line of rulers, one after another, and what each reign changed.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IA new dynasty
  2. IIKing Sejong
  3. IIIHangul
  4. IVRain gauges and water clocks
  5. VAdmiral Yi’s turtle ships
  6. VIThe hermit kingdom

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Taejo
  • Sejong the Great
  • Jang Yeong-sil
  • Yi Sun-sin
  • Sin Saimdang

Objects

  • The Hunminjeongeum
  • Turtle ship models

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1392 to 1897. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?