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During Eastern Zhou period people were required to know readings and text inside out.
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Rivalries stated to uprise in this time to end the Yuan Dynasty and begin the ming Dynasty
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Ming Taizu, the emperor pushed the mongolians out of China.
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Emperor Taizu established his capital and knew how pwerfull merchant families were on the coastal cities.
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Zhu Yuanzhang was emperor for the new beging.
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Zhu Yuanzhang had came to be known as Hong-wu or "Grand military achievement". He had ascended the throne of ming dynasty. He created a military system and lead his army across Asia.
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Land,people,and taxes were under the Hong-wu
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Construction of the mausoleum began. The Hong-wu emeror had built a large bureaucracy to help administer his vast kingdom. He later then discovered how to overthrow his regin. He combined confucian and legalist philosophies to take strict control over his government.
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There were about 70,000 Eunuchs by the end of the Ming Dynasty. they have also became very powerfull in the court. The things Enuchs were doing soonly increased.
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Land registers, showing over 129 million acres uner cultivation. China's population reached 60 million people. Taxes then went up from both of these out growing numbers.
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Ming Chengzu had been the 3rd emperor of China. Chengzu was very powerful and kind of violante.
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Population had reached up to 60 million.
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Hanlin Academy established in this era. The Encyclopedia of the Youngle period published in 1407. The Youngle emperor established Hanlin Academy to strengthen the literary and historical tradtions of China.
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During the Ming period, the emperors sent seven maritime expeditions probing down into the South Seas and across the Indian Ocean.
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2,000 year of change from Chinas confucian which was rewrote many times.
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The two men of the "Former Seven Scholars" was leaded by Li Mengyang and He Jingming. This first movement had very formalistic writtings.
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China failed to become a world maritime power because they wanted land taxes and not trade taxes. This had them unsuccessfull in the great commercial revolution that will soon sweep the world.
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In 1511, the ViceRoy of India, Afonso de Albuquerque, decided to organize an expedition destined to
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This man listed dangers of over 1,000 drugs. He also listed collected and use of drugs, treatment, and disscused diseases.
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The deadliest earthquake of all times, the Shaanxi earthquake of 1556 that killed over 800,000 people, occurred during the Jiajing Emperor's reign.The empire also had to deal with pirates attacking the southeastern coastline
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This began with Hongwu and ended in the Wanli emperor. This system was to dominate power in east Asia. To be known as the largest, oldest Asian country. Where Asian civilization originated .
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Wanli ascended the throne for the first ten years of his reign. Overall during these 10 years, the Ming Dynasty's economy and military power prospered
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Two neoclassicl movements in literature had happened in the Ming. The first movement was lead by two men from the regions of Hongzhi and Zhengde was initiated by the "Former Seven Scholars". The second movement was the "Later Seven Scholars".
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The examination system which had its beginnings in the Sui dynasty but was fully developed during the Qing dynasty. The system continued to play a major role, not only in education and government, but also in society itself, throughout Qing times.
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In this time the British captured a shipp full of potiguese.
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About 50 percent of the imperial income derived from high taxes collected from coastal cities
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party of Chinese scholars and officials who attempted to combat the moral laxity and intellectual weakness they felt was undermining public life during the last years of the Ming dynasty.
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this was a major riot that had happened in this time. This riot was over people going against the government
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In this time period the ming dynasty had started breaking down economicly. This had became a disaster.
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The Qing Dynasty was the second time when the whole of China was ruled by foreigners, the Manchu. The Qing Dynasty was the last of the imperial dynasties of China.
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Trades dominated in theses days, song ships were considered the most seaworthy.
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Chinese literary of the Ming Dynasty had originated from the Tang Dynasty.
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Alot of storytellers flourished in the marketplace in two diffrent capitals, the Northern capital, Bianliang and Southern capital, Hongzhi. These stories then started to become published.
