Your 2nd at-home essay In this five-page doubled-spaced essay, worth 30% of your final grade, you will need to discuss one East Asian country other than China as well as at least one country in Southeast Asia and one country in South Asia. ! The three topics you are to choose from are: ! 1) what were China’s diplomatic/military/political relations with the rest of the world between 700 and 1500? What influence did China have on other Asian countries, and what influence did they have on China? ! OR ! 2) What were China’s economic relations with the rest of the world between 700 and 1500? Did China have any effect on the economies of any other countries? Did trade with other countries have any effect on China? OR ! 3) Were there any significant religious and philosophical changes in Asia between 700 and 1500? Did such changes spread from one country to another? If so, trace that spread, including the role, if any, China played. ! For the purposes of this essay, we will treat China under the Yuan dynasty as China, though we will remember that the the Yuan dynasty controlled more than just China, and the Mongol rulers of the Yuan were not Chinese. ! You will need to draw from four sources for your essay. In addition to the booklet on China in Traditional Asian and World History, you will also need to draw information from the pages you were asked to read from the Ebrey, Trautmann, and Lockard books. (Since we will not covered Korea after the year 1392 before you write that essay, for Korea write about Goryeo Korea only. However, you can write about the Ming—since it is discussed in the Sen book as we well as in the chapter we will discuss the day the paper is due. For the Ming, pay particular attention to Ebrey, pp. 230-34. ! We want you to show us that you have read those books. To do so, you will need to cite specific pieces of relevant information you found in those four sources. When you cite, be sure to use the correct citation format, including the page number. Use the Writing History book as your guide to how to cite sources. Remember, you have to cite any specific information or arguments you obtained from those sources even if you don’t put that information or argument in quotation marks. ! You are not allowed to use any sources other than those four. In particular, you are not allowed to use Wikipedia. We will be using TurnItIn.com to ensure that you do not borrow information from other sources. !I had listed two acceptable sites, which were links to various documents in English translation. However, I have learned those sites are not being maintained these days and much of their purported content is no longer available. I have therefore removed those links. ! Your paper should be no more than five double-spaced pages long. Moreover, your essay should present an argument. In other words, you need to answer one of those three questions, and provide specific pieces of information to support your answer. ! And don’t forget that we need both a hard copy of your essay handed to your TA as well as the exact same essay in electronic form uploaded to TurnItIn.com. ! 4 SOURCES: 1. Tansen Sen and Victor H. Mair Traditional China in Asian and World History. 2. Ebrey, Walthall, and Palais, East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History 3. Thomas R. Trautmann, India: Brief History of a Civilization 4. Craig A. Lockard, Southeast Asia in World History