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Period: Jan 31, 1350 to Jan 31, 1560
Age of Exploration
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Jan 1, 1398
Zheng He apointed as Admiral of the Western Sea
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Jan 1, 1436
The emperor forbade the building of ships for overseas voyages.
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Jan 1, 1448
The Yellow River Flooded
This left many homeless and shrunk the tax base in half. -
Jan 1, 1449
Several Mongol Tribes Unified
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Jan 1, 1477
Ministry of War denied all expeditions.
In 1477, the vice president of the Ministry of War argued that "the expeditions to the West Ocean wasted tens of myriads (too may to count) of money and grain and moreover the people who met their deaths may be counted in the myriads. -
Jan 1, 1525
They burned all of the ships.
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Age of Revolution
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Opium Smuggling
Britain began smuggling a very addictive narcotic known as Opium. -
Chests sent in 1700
In 1700 they only sent 200 chests of Opium. -
Distributing Massive Amounts
In 1819 the Britihs began distributing masssive amounts of Opium in order to eliminate the competiting and get even more people addicted. -
Opium War
Britain's expanding sales of opium to China caused the Opium War of 1839 after China destroyed an opium shipment. -
# of Chests
The British sent 40000 chests of Opium. -
Treaty
The war ended with a treaty in favor of the British. -
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Post World War II
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Mao in Power
Faced major problems in creating the new China. Industrialization was down 50%, agriculture was down 25%. Devastated roads and rail systems. -
The Five Year Plan
in 1953 and used propaganda such as pamphlets and newspapers to familiarize the people of the new communist China. They were trying to produce energy and hydroelectric power. -
The Great Leap Forward
Goal was self-sufficiency by increasing quotas in industry. But it failed because quotas were too high and the communes were too large. -
Cultural Revolution
Mao was concerned that people didn't want Marxism. So he attacked Communists that wanted very slow changes. He created the little red book to show how they would get to Marxism and gained support from youth. -
Mao Dies
Deng Xiaoping took over and relaxed the communisim to increase the economy. -
Increased Economy
China becomes a major trading country with a great economy. 1.25 billion people.
