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+ | The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. | ||
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+ | Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol | ||
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+ | '''Timeline of events''' | ||
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+ | 1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China. | ||
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+ | 1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. | ||
+ | Tonghak, religious movement, equality | ||
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+ | Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent. | ||
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+ | '''Background''' | ||
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+ | Government & official reading is in Chinese. | ||
+ | Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul | ||
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+ | Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power | ||
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− | + | '''Dragon ecology''' | |
− | + | Transport - buses! cargo! | |
+ | Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains | ||
+ | Agriculture - flatlands | ||
+ | Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal | ||
− | + | Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits | |
+ | Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla) |