From 1450 to 1750, during the early modern period, East Asia had a relatively large and stable empire. Early Chinese and Japanese characteristics, loyalty, obedience, harmony, learning and philosophy, remained the basis of social life, politics and therefore empire building in the early modern period, unlike Europe and their Asian counterparts. Like early China and Japan, they were, with the exception of trade, very inward-looking and kept to themselves. Loyalty was an obvious East Asian trait. It was a pillar in the way people dealt with each other socially and politically. In Document 7: Meritorious Deeds Without Cost, he discusses how people of certain classes should act and react to certain things. Regarding men in general, "Don't listen to your wife or concubines if they encourage you to neglect or abandon your parents..." Even if it's not how you act towards your parents that builds a country, it 'is true. that how you are raised is how you live and act. Document 10: Memorial to Ming Emperor Xizong Concerning the Eunuch Wei Zhongxian by Yang Lien (1624) is an almost painful account of a man's speaking of a corrupt man in a high position. He had promised to make the current emperor a great emperor, he finds it difficult to be faithful to this promise because he must also be faithful to a eunuch, which means he must stop being faithful to one of both. Document 11: Better Learning for Women, written by an educated man, discusses how a wife should obey her husband. “When the husband gives his instructions, the wife must never disobey them,” a quote that speaks for itself. A quote Document 15: Laws governing military households, "The great lords [daimyo], the lesser lords and the officers...... middle of paper ......e an entirely different perspective. We don't really hear about cases where people got tired of always being the one to obey an unjust or unfit person. To conclude, the empire building strategies used by East Asians in the early modern period were not the ones implemented. put in place by the people of that period. They were put in place as East Asia began to come together. The empire was built on the same ideas that the first civilization was built on; loyalty, harmony, obedience, education, philosophical thinking and introspection. There was always a kind of harmonious flow in society in that region, everything fueled everything. This field has been so successful because it has never attempted to impose radical changes. For example, this area has remained so isolated because the early philosophies of this region encouraged looking within to solve one's problems...