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Zheng He decided to go on voyages around Africa and South east Asia. He traveled a long way, more than anyone by that time. His voyages were stopped by the Ming emperor because they needed more money for internal problems in China.
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The city of Beijing was created in China. In 1420, Beijin was declared the capital of China.
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In 1644, the ming emperor brought a group of Qing worriors to help him fight a rebellion. The Qing emperor out smarted the Ming emperor and ended the Ming Dysnasty.
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He took over China in 1644, and started the Manchu dynasty, He adopted the Chinese bureaucracy and court ceremonies in Manchuria.
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In 1720, Kagxi created the encyclopedia along with other scholars.
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The Chinese were very protective with their culture. They did not want Europeans ideas threatining their culture, so they banned Christianity in 1724.
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British traders offered to trade opium with the Chinese. Opium was a destructive drug. The British wanted to make the Chinese weak, so later on they could attack the Chinese and they would not be able to fight back.
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The self-strengthening movement encouraged the western side of china to invest in railways, factories, and to modernize their army
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British traders introduced opium to China. When the Chinese realized that the opium was bad for them, they banned opium from China. That made the British mad and that is what caused the first Opium war, which Britain won.
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The British had a big developedment in 1843 because they declared possession on Hong Kong. A year later the Manchu had to let Christian missionaries back into China because Britain now had a colony there.
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The Taiping rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan. He wanted to over thow the Qing dynasty and confucian basis of scholar-gentry. It was near southern China.
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China resisted British attempts to exopand Opium trade futher, which caused the 2nd opium war. The war was 4 years long. China was defeates; as a result, China was open for all European trade.
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China was weak, so Korea declared for independence
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The Chinese lost the Sino-Janapese War. Loosing the war lead to the Treaty of Shimonoseki where China was forced to hand over control of Taiwan to the Japanese. It also had to grant them trading rights.
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The Chinese were trying to drive the Europeans and Japanese away. So, the Boxers, which were people against invaders, slaughtered Christian missionaries. The Europens and Japanese got mad, so they made the Chinese sign the Boxer Protocol, which stated that the Chinese were going to pay for the damages they did to them, and China was also going to apologize formally.
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The self-strengthening movement encouraged the western side of china to invest in railways, factories, and to modernize their army.
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Foot-binding has been done for the past centuries in China. Women would get their foot binded to make it become smaller, so men could be attracted to women. In 1901, the tradition was ablosihed from China,
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China had been doing the civil service exams for over 2000 years. In 1905, they were removed because there was cheating and favoratism going on.
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In 1911, the Manchu dynasty falls. The emperial rule in China came to an end. For the first time, there was a republic established under leadership of Sun Yarsen.
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Since the Manchu Dynasty declined, there was a change in goverments. So, the last emperor in China was Puyi.
