The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC,and the Neolithic period began after 6000 BC,followed by the Bronze Age by 2000 BC,and the Iron Age around 700 BC.
Goguryeo also called Goryeo,was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power,Goguryeo controlled most of the Korean peninsula,large parts of Manchuria and parts of eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia.
Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea,together with Goguryeo and Silla.
Samhan or the Three Kingdoms of Korea refers to the three kingdoms of Goguryeo,Baekje,and Silla. Goguryeo was later known as Goryeo,from which the modern name Korea is derived. The Three Kingdoms period is defined as being from 57 BC to 668 AD. The "Korean Three Kingdoms" contributed to what would become Korea;and the Goguryeo,Baekje and Silla peoples became what we know as the Korean people.
Buyeo or Puyŏ,also rendered as Fuyu,was an ancient kingdom that was centered in northern Manchuria in modern-day northeast China. It is sometimes considered a Korean kingdom,and had ties to the Yemaek people,who are considered to be the ancestors of modern Koreans. Buyeo is a major predecessor of the Korean kingdoms of Goguryeo and Baekje.
Seong of Baekje was the 26th king of Baekje,one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was a son of Muryeong of Baekje and is best known for making Buddhism the state religion,moving the national capital to Sabi,and reclaiming the center of the Korean Peninsula. His demise eventually came at the hands of an ally who betrayed him. The name Seong translates as 'The Holy.'
Uija of Baekje was the 31st and final ruler of Baekje,one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His reign ended when Baekje was conquered by an alliance of the rival Korean kingdom Silla and China's Tang dynasty.
Asin of Baekje was the seventeenth king of Baekje,one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
Munju of Baekje was the 22nd king of Baekje,one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His reign saw considerable disunity within Baekje following the fall of its capital in present-day Seoul.
Okjeo was an ancient Korean tribal state which arose in the northern Korean peninsula from perhaps the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.
Chumo,posthumously Chumo the Holy,was the founding monarch of the kingdom of Goguryeo,and was worshipped as a god-king by the people of Goguryeo and Goryeo. Chumo was originally a Buyeo slang for an excellent archer,which became his name later. He was commonly recorded as Jumong by various Chinese literatures including history books written by Northern Qi and Tang—the name became dominant in future writings including Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa. Chumo's title was changed to Dongmyeong the Holy,literally translated to the Bright Holy King of the East,at some point of time prior to compilation of Samguk Sagi (1145). His other names include Chumong,Jungmo,Nakamu,or Tomo. In Samguk Sagi,he was recorded as Jumong with the surname Go,and was also known as Junghae or Sanghae.
Very little is known of the language of the Buyeo kingdom. Chapter 30 "Description of the Eastern Barbarians" in the Records of the Three Kingdoms records a survey carried out by the Chinese state of Wei after their defeat of Goguryeo in 244. The report states that the languages of Buyeo and those of its southern neighbours Goguryeo and Ye were similar,and that the language of Okjeo was only slightly different from them. Based on this text,Lee Ki-Moon grouped the four languages as the Puyŏlanguages,contemporaneous with the Han languages of the Samhan confederacies in southern Korea.
Hae Geumwa was the second ruler of Dongbuyeo,an ancient kingdom of Korea. His story is recorded in Samguk Sagi,Samguk Yusa and Book of King Dongmyeong.
Eastern Buyeo,also rendered as Dongbuyeo or Eastern Fuyu,was an ancient kingdom that developed from Northern Buyeo,until it was conquered by Goguryeo. According to the Samguk Sagi,it was established when the Buyeo king Hae Buru moved the capital eastward by the sea.
Go Royal Family was the dynasty that founded and ruled over the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. Its founder,Jumong,broke away from another ancient Korean kingdom called Dongbuyeo to start his own kingdom. The Taewangs were all members of the Go Royal Family.
Soseono or Yeon Soseono was the second wife of King Dongmyeong and a key figure in the establishment of both Goguryeo and Baekje. She was the mother of Biryu and Onjo,whom they were her sons from her first marriage with Wutae.
The Goguryeo–Wei War was a series of invasions of Goguryeo from 244 to 245 launched by Cao Wei.
Hwando is a mountain fortress of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo,built to protect Goguryeo's second capital,Gungnae. It is located in present-day Ji'an city of the province of Jilin,China.
The Government of Baekje,was the court system of Baekje (百濟),one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea which lasted from 18 BCE–660 CE.
Xiangping is a historical name of Liaoyang,Liaoning province. Xiangping was first mentioned in history as the capital of the Liaodong Commandery in the state of Yan,and the eastern terminus of the Great Wall of Yan established in 284 BC. After the unification of China by the Qin dynasty,Xiangping became the political and cultural center of what is now Northeastern China. From the 4th century onward,Xiangping was successively ruled by the Former Yan and Later Yan. The city was taken by Goguryeo in AD 404 and renamed to Liaodong/Yodong (遼東) City. It saw several major battles during the Goguryeo–Sui War and Goguryeo–Tang Wars before eventually falling to the Tang dynasty.
