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Ming Taizhu founded the Ming Dynasty. It continued many Mongol practices. Not only did the Ming realm include the core areas of Northern Song Dynasty but also included Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet.
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A Portuguese fleet of 200 ships assembled in the Algarve port of Largos and attacked and conquered the city of Ceuta in Morocco. This was the first building block and inspiration to create the Portuguese empire.
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The Mexica launched a series of conquests that led to to the creation of an empire in 1428. By 1500, they had already extended all the way to Guatemala conquering 450 altepetl in modern Mexico.
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Zheng He led the most ambitious voyages in Chinese history. The Ming government suspended his voyages in order to focus on rebuilding the Great Wall.
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The process of choosing emperors was a two-stage process, once the elections was completed there was a coronation held for the new emperor.
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The first great Inca ruler, Pachakuti, launched military campaigns outward from Cuzco in 1438. By 1532 the Inca ruled over a population estimated at 10 to 12 million.
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Mehmed the Conqueror wanted to end the fiction of Byzantine rule and constructed a large fort just across from Constantinople. It took two long months before the Ottomans took the city.
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France won at the end of the war. The war ended up strengthening the sense of national identity in both England and France.
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The end of Reconquista ended with Granada's surrender. It started with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain trying to recapture land from the Muslims and convert it back into Christianity.
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Emperor Akbar's armies controlled most of the Indian subcontinent. The Mughal dynasty was at the height of its glory under Akbar, its' greatest leader.
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The Russian nobles offered royal power to Mikhail Romanov following the death of Ivan the Terrible. The Romanov dynasty continued Russia's imperial expansion.