Mahan confederacy

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The Mahan confederacy was an ancient loose alliance of chiefdoms in the southwestern Korean Peninsula that preceded and helped give rise to the Baekje kingdom.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient confederacy
chiefdom alliance
historical polity
archaeologicalCulture Korean Bronze–Iron Age transition
associatedWithRegion Chungcheong region NERFINISHED
Honam region NERFINISHED
modern South Korea
burialCustoms earthen pit tombs (hypothesized)
capital not certainly known
contemporaneousWith Byeonhan NERFINISHED
Jinhan NERFINISHED
culture Korean
developedFrom local Bronze Age communities
dissolvedBy expansion of Baekje
economy agriculture-based
engagedIn bronze production
iron use
regional trade
wet-rice cultivation
era Proto–Three Kingdoms period
ethnicComposition ancient Koreanic peoples (hypothesized)
followedBy Baekje NERFINISHED
hasUncertain exact territorial boundaries
internal political hierarchy
influencedFormationOf Baekje NERFINISHED
knownFrom Chinese historical records
languageFamily Koreanic (hypothesized)
locatedIn Korean Peninsula NERFINISHED
southwestern Korean Peninsula
mainCrops millet
rice
memberPolities multiple small chiefdoms
mentionedIn Hou Hanshu NERFINISHED
Sanguozhi NERFINISHED
partOf Samhan NERFINISHED
partOfHistoricalContext Three Kingdoms of Korea formative period
politicalStructure decentralized alliance
loose confederation of chiefdoms
precededBy Jin (Korean state) NERFINISHED
relatedTo Baekje kingdom formation
history of Korea
religion shamanistic practices (hypothesized)
significance major component of Samhan polities
precursor to Baekje kingdom
successorState Baekje NERFINISHED
timePeriod early centuries BCE to early centuries CE
usedTechnology bronze weapons
iron tools

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Baekje predecessor Mahan confederacy