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Jan 1, 1368
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644 C.E) came to power by the domination of by mongol invaders. -
Period: Sep 6, 1400 to Jan 31, 1500
Ming Government
The Ming government noticed that the economy was failing, so the government decided to change paper money to a single-whip system that was based on silver currency. -
Mar 6, 1450
The Mongols
By the year 1450, the Mongol empire was in decline because the internal factors. When the Mongols were kicked out of china in the year 1368, the ming dynasty was formed under traditional chinese practices. -
Dec 6, 1450
Chinese innovations
China has developed advanced weaponry and objects such as, gundpowder cannons, water-powered mills, magnetic compass, porcelain, etc. -
China's population
China needed innovations in technology and organization that would increase its productivity to support its exploiding population. -
Decline of Qing Empire
The corruption of the government led to the decline of the Qing empire, in which the citizens cheated on the examinations. -
Decline of Qing Empire
The empire needed new technology and more productivity in orfer to be able to suport the expansion of the population. To be able to create more jobs for the citizens. -
Decline of the Ming dynasty
By the sixteenth century, the Ming dynasty was in decline. In 1644, the Ming emperor invited a group of Qing warriors from Manchuria to help with a peasant uprising. The Qing ruled out the Ming emperor. -
Confucian scholars
Kangxi who ruled form 1661 to 1772. The emperor only supported the arts but also expanded the Manchu dynasty. -
Manchus social system
Landlord classes found that they could add to their estates by calling in loans to peasants or simply by buying the peasants out. -
Qing Empire
The QIng dynasty has experinced cheating and favortism in the examinations systems as in the past decades the exams were taken honestly by bureaucrats. -
The Manchus
The weakness of the declining of the Ming regime, gave the Manchus an oppportunity to seize control in China. -
Examinations
Examiners could be bribed to approve weak credentials or look the other way when candinates consulted cheat sheets while taking the exams. -
The Opium War
British merchants had eagerly exported silks, fine porcelains, tea, and other products from the chinese empire. In which the chinese demanded Opium in return. -
Dynamic leaders
In the 19th Century, dynamic local leaders were the most responsible for China's self-strengthening movement in order to encounter the challenges from the west. -
British imports of Opium.
The British ordered the chinese to stop their anti-opium campaign or risk military intervention. -
Opium
In China, silver began to flow in large quantities out of the counrty, in which all the silver was being invested iin opium. -
Taiping Rebellion
The taiping rebellion was a war, in southern china around the late 1840's, in which was against the ruling of the Manchu-led dynasty. Hong Xiuquan, a chrisianized prophet who was mentally unstable, received visions that he was the younger brother of Jesus. -
Defeat of the Opium War
China's defeat in the opium war greatly contributed to building a crisis that threatend not just the Qing dynasty but also the chinese civilization as a whole. -
Manchus
When the Ming dynasty declined, the Qing/Manchu dynasty began. The Manchus ruled China until 1911.
