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Apr 5, 1368
Ming Dynasty
Ming Dynasty was booted out the last og the Mongols in China and restored their power. -
Mar 9, 1405
Zheng He
Zheng He goes on a journey to Africa and India; he establishes trade relationships and brings back news of the outside. -
Mar 9, 1433
Termination of Zheng He's Travels
the bureaucrats had long opposed the new trade policy. they wanted isolation due to fear of western powers subjugating them. -
Manchu vs. Ming
Ming Emperor invited a group of Qing warriors from Manchuria to help with a peasant uprising- but Qing warriors outsed the emperor. -
Christianity?
Christianity gets banned in China. -
Drugs.
Britain introduces Opium from India to China. -
You Can't Trade with Us
Opium is no longer allowed to be sold in China -
Opium Wars 1839-1842
Great Britain and China fight over the Opium trade. -
Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864
Led by religious zealot claiming to be the brother of Jesus, recruited an army nearly a million strong and it almost succeeded in bringing down thr Manchu government. -
Self strenghening movement
A movement Manchu China did to keep the dynasty from falling -
Chinese exclusion act
Us had forbidden the immigration of any and all Chinese laborers -
Sino French War
Chinese lost control of Vietnam to the French -
Boxer Rebellion 1899-1901
Anti-Manchu, European, and Christians (Boxers) were a secret society organized in response to the Manchu governments's defeats and concessions to the western powers and Japan. Their goal was to drive out Europeans and Japanese out of China. -
White lotus rebellion
Buddhists revolted due to their frustration with taxes and corrupt government -
Open Door Policy
The U.S. Pledged it's support of the sovereignty of the Chinese government.
