A grey stoneware dish on a tall pierced foot, from the Three Kingdoms of Korea
Pedestal dish with cover, 5th–6th century
Marked Gyeongju

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Three Kingdoms of Korea

Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla shared the Korean peninsula for seven centuries, with their own kings, tombs and crafts, until Silla united most of it in 668.

Place
Gyeongju · Pyongyang · BuyeoAsia
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThree kingdoms
  2. IIGoguryeo’s painted tombs
  3. IIIBaekje and Japan
  4. IVThe gold crowns of Silla
  5. VQueen Seondeok and the observatory

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Gwanggaeto the Great
  • Queen Seondeok
  • Kim Yu-sin

Objects

  • Silla gold crowns
  • The Gwanggaeto stele
  • Cheomseongdae

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

57 BC to AD 668. 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?