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Uprising floods, flamine, and rivalries from 1351-1367 lead to the fall of the dynasty
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Zhu Yuanzhang leads an army into Beijing
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For almost 300 years the Ming dynasty ruled China.
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MIng Taziu,dynasty's founding emperor, that pushed the Mongols out of China
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under the hongwu and yongle emperors, population reaches 60million. land registers netween 1393-1414 show 129 million acres under culitvation.
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Ming Chengzu was the third Emperor of the dynasty
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Ming Anti-commercialism follows final maritime expedition
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Halin Academy established in 1404; Encyclopedia of the yongle Period published in 1407
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There were many who rewrote Confucianism, but one of the most famous was Wang Yangming
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Portuguese arrived in the port cities of Ming China
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Wu Cheng'en was born in 1507
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The "Mongol problem" started begins in the 1530s and continues until the fall of the dynasty
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From Hongwu through Wanli emperor
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Wu Cheng'en died in 1582
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The Ming government was forced to quell a riot
