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Emperor Yunglo won the throne and became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty from 1402- 1424
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In 1450, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty ordered Zheng He to take his first voyage out of 7 to the Indian ocean to show off their larger ships and their powe.
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In 1421, The Ming Dynasty decided to move the Capital of Beijing to protect themselves agasint nomads
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The Emperor ordered Zheng He to return back to China. The Ming Dynasty could not afford to pay for them anymore.
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A Mongol leader invaded The Ming Dynasty and captured the Emperor Zhengtong
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Japan started to attacked Ming territory, Korea. The Ming Dynasty became weak and asked for help.
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In 1644, the Ming Dynasty asked the Manchus to help him from a rebellion near the Great Wall of China but instead The Manchus invaded and took over. They called it The Qing Dynasty.
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By the 1700's century, the Qing Dynasty began to decline because of cheating in the exam system. High officals will pay to get their sons to pass the exam
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Kangxi was one of the early Manchu rulerr. He was a Confucian scholar and was involved in Chinese learnings and arts
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Qianlong, grandson of Kangxi became the new emperor and improved production by increasing trade and production
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In the early 1800's Britain introduced the drug, opium to China. 4500 chests of Opium were sold in China to merchants
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In the late 1830'sThe Emperor sent Lin Zexu to block the areas in Canton and search and destroy the warehouse because the Europeans were secretly selling opium.
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China had ordered to stop the trade of opium but that only made the Britain mad but thet still secretly sold the drug. This made it worse and war broke put. The Chinese lost the war and had to trade with Britain.
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The goverment did not had enough money so public work decrease. The dikes were not being fix so they flooded the river and farmland
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Between 1851-1864, The Christian prophet, Hong Xiuquan created the Taiping Rebellion to overthrow the Qing dynasty
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The Taiping Rebellion captured territory in south central China and established a capital at Nanjing.
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The Boxer Rebellion was created by a small group of rebels aimed to kick out the foreigners in China. The Rebellion was aa failure.
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By the 20th century, the Qing Dynasty was numbers. People were getting involved in secret societies to revolt agaist the dynasty.
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The last Civil Service exam was taken. Since there was cheating, the goverment couldn't trust it anymore so they decided to end it already
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Puyi became the last emperor but the Dynasty was already weakened because of revolts and the goverment was declining. The Qing Dynasty fell.
