WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -An alliance with the Tang Dynasty of China permitted Silla to eventually conquer the whole of the Korean peninsula in 668 CE, which it then ruled for the next three centuries as the Unified Silla Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -Silla, one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea and the one that in 668 unified Korea under the Unified Silla dynasty (q.v.; 668–935). Silla is traditionally believed to have been founded by Hyŏkkŏse in 57 bc.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Korean records, Silla was founded by Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla in 57 BCE, around present-day Gyeongju. Hyeokgeose is said to have been hatched from an egg laid from a white horse, and when he turned 13, six clans submitted to him as king and established Saro-guk (also called Seona).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Tang empire made the Korean state Silla a vassal, and it became an eager importer of Chinese culture and institutions. Buddhism triumphed, and many Korean monks traveled to China. The Tang system became the governmental model, and Confucianism was adopted as a political ideology.

Detailed explanation-5: -Silla Kingdom, 57 B.C.–676 A.D. Goguryeo Kingdom, 37 B.C.–668 A.D.

Detailed explanation-6: -Thereafter the Korean nation was divided for only brief transitional periods. Under the Silla dynasty, Korea, which was one of the earliest of the nation-states to emerge, assumed many of the cultural, linguistic, and geographic features it maintains today.