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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 2, 1550
Age of Exploration
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He sets sail
Zheng He set sail from Nanjing on his first voyage in 1405 with a fleet of hundreds of ships. -
Jan 1, 1433
Zheng's Retire
In 1433, after traveling nearly 35,000 miles to thirty nations on seven voyages, Zheng He retired and soon died. -
Jan 23, 1436
No voyages
In 1436, the emporer forbade the building of ships and overseas voyages. -
Jan 27, 1448
Yellow River floods
In 1448, flooding of the Yellow River left millions homeless and thousands of acres unproductive. -
Jan 27, 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 many to count] of money and grain and moreover the people who met their deaths may be counted in the myriads. -
Jan 23, 1525
Destruction of all ships
In 1525, the government destroyed all overseas ships -
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Age of Revolution
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Smuggling
In, 1700s british began smuggling from India into China a narcotic know as Opium in order to open chinese trade markets. -
First Shipments
In 1700 the first shipments were brought over which was only 200 chests of opium -
Eliminate Competition
The British began distributing massive amounts of opium in order to eliminate the competition. -
Opium War
Britains expanding sales of opium to China cause the opium war of 1839. China wanted sales stopped and destroyed an opium shipment at Guangzhou -
Last Shipments
In 1840 the last shipments were carrying over 40,000 chests of opium -
War ends
The war ended in 1842 with a treaty favorable for the victorious British. -
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Post WWII
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National Capital
On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was formally established, with its national capital at Beijing. -
PRC
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). -
Starvation
Throughout 1959, there was an increased rate of starvation in addition to the decline of industrial plants because of a lack of profit motive. After this failure, Mao ordered for the “Great Proletariat Revolution”, which had people abandon capitalistic ideas, ending in chaos and myriad deaths. -
The Red Book
1964, The Red Book, Mao’s thoughts in political indoctrination (brainwashing). -
Mao's death
When Mao finally died in 1976 Deng Xiaoping quickly changed the educational and economic policies of Mao. China adopted many aspects of free-market capitalism and has been one of the fastest growing economies in modern times. -
China tries to form relationship
In 1977 China was afraid the USSR was going to attack them so Nixon visited China to form a relationship and get help
