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The Monkey King was written about this famous Tang monk.
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Uprising floods, famine, and rivalries from 1351-1367 lead to the fall of the dynasty.
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Ming Taizu led expeditions that pushed Mongols out of China, he was knowen to be a military genius.
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Ming Dynasty Ruled China.
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This emperor established his capital, he was the only emperor to come from peasant stock.
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This era begins when Zhu Yuanzhang leads an army into Beijing.
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Zhu Yuanzhang became knowen as "grand military achievement" emperor as he created a large military system.
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The Hongwu emperor built a a large bureaucracy, using Confucian scholar-officals & eunuchs, to help administer his vast kingdom.
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The eunuchs became increasingly powerful in the court. Later emperors grew very fond of the eunuchs, who helped raise them; thus, the rank and duties of many eunuchs increased.
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This system grew more complex, offering 3 levels of examination activity & generally allowing any man to advance to the level of Confucian scholar-offical.
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The land, people, taxes, emperors, and population reaches over 60 million.
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Land registers, showing 129 million acres under cultivation.
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This Emperor came to power through civil war.
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During the Yongle and Hongwu, land, people, taxes, emerors and population reaches 60 million.
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Halin Acadmey established.
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During the reigns of the Yongle and Hongxi emperors, China sent out 7 great maritime expiditions. The expiditions led by a court eunuch named Zheng He experienced great success, contacting and trading with countries as far as India and the Persian Gulf, almost a century before the portuguese sailed around Africa.
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Encyclopedia of the Yongle Period published.
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China failed to become a world maritime power because rich and self-sufficient China lacked motivation and need that their Japanese and European counterparts would have centuries later.
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Wang Yangming rewrote Confucianism.
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1st neoclassical movement was initated by the former the "Former Seven Scholars" headed by Li Mengyang & He Jingming.
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The Portuguese arrived in port cities of Ming China.
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Wu Cheng'en A well knowen poet who wrote about scenery and animals.
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Shizhen wrote the book THE PHARMACOPOEIA.
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2nd neoclassical movement was led by "Later Seven Scholars" headed by Wang Shizhen & Li Panlong during this era.
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Problems on the Mongol frontier worsenes & the Ming would constantly have to deal with the "Mongol problem."
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The Ming sufferes numerous raids from Japanese pirates, who would prowl the Chinese coastline.
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Ming Dynasty suffered many raids from Japanese pirates, who would prowl the Chinese coastline, sometimes raiding towns and villages.The Ming decided to prohibit maritime trade with Japan in hopes of controlling these raids. But this lead to other problems.
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From Hongwu through the Wanli emperor. The Ming set up a tribute system dominate power in East Asia. China sent envoys to Korea, Japan, Annam, Tibet and other Southeast Asian countries in order to assume its position as the largest and oldest Asian country.
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The reign of Wanliwas during this time.
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The British captured a Portuguese ship, that was filled with Chinese goods.
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The scholar Gu Yanwu estimated that 50% of imperial income derived from high taxes collected from costal cities.
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Manchu under Nurachi began attacking the Ming. Between 1629 and 1637, they attack north China, Korea, and Mongolia. In 1644, with assistance of Ming, armies, Manchus defeat Li and come to rule China in the QQing Dynasty.
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This party was intent on returning Chinese society and government to the traditional principals of Confucian conduct. They stressed the importance of moral of moral integrity and denounced corrupt officals including grand secretaries and high-powered eunuchs.
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Literati class formed an alliance against the government policy. They surrounded the courthouse and attached and killed 3 imperial guards.
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A majority of the provinces in Northwest China experienced severe famines.
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Since this time the costal cities of China had produced great industry and trade.
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Chinese literary history, its origin can be traced back to this era.