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In the Mongol empire there was a Khan (Temujin) that conquered his rival Khans to become Genghis Khan.
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In the 1200s the Mongols emerged into China. They were soon were a force to be recond with because of their ruthless tactics and deadly weapondry.
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In China Temujin dies and tells his sons that it is their jobs to conquer the world.
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In 1235 Kublai bagan his conquest to China to expand the Mongol Empire.
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Temujin's grandson, Batu, took the task, along with the Golden Horde, to conquer Russia to expand the empire.
Golden Horde-when a army of Mongols went on a conquest to russia. -
In 1260 Kublai became the great Khan for the Mongols becasue Temujin's grandsons passed away.
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In 1279 Kublai deafeated the last Song emperor in China and declared himself as the new emperor of the Yuang dynasty to create his own empire.
Song Dynasty-Succeded the 5 Kingdoms and 10 states era and was followed by the Yuan dynasty. -
In 1294 Kublai dies.
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In 1300 Chinese rebellions begin in china against the new rule after Kublai becasue it was unclear who would follow after Kublai.
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After Kublai died the Yuan dynasty began a downfall in China because the emperors thone was unclear who it would go to and soon then Zhu Yuanzhang rebels took control of china in 1368.
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In 1398 Hongwu dies.
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In 1402 Yonglo became the emporer of the Ming dynasty because Hongwu had died.
Great Wall of China- the wall that was used as a border to protect china from the Mongols. -
Zheng He chinese muslim admril led seven sea voyages around the Indian Ocean and Africa to expand trade.
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the forbbiden city was created in China in 1420.
Forbidden city- A chinese imperial city from the Ming Dynasty. -
Yonglo gets rule ends.Possibly beacause of the Black death
Black death- A plaque that swept through china and on to the western Civilizations. -
After 1433 the over sea voyages were stopped by the new emperor because it was expensive and because the reasources would be better used for the Chinese fronteir.
Kamakazie- to create as mcuh damage as possible before death (modern term- a pilot unit used to take out enime ships by sacrificing ones self.) -
The Ming heavily limited trade to outside countries because they did not want other new religions entering China.
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In the 1500s American crops began to work their way into chinese diets the crops where corn and sweet potatos the crops increased the farm output in China.
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In 1583 Matteo, a Jesuit preist came to china and soon joined the Ming court and became very respected in China to gain chinese influence.
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In the 1600s taxes were raised, but then at the same time crops started to fail so this lead to starvation and hard shipes for the people of Ming people. This also started the decline of the Ming dynasty.
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The Ming dynasty end in 1644.
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In 1644 the Manchu took over Bejing in China and then they soon created the Qing dynasty.
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After the Ming where defeated the Qing dynasy was created and this would be the last dynasty of china.
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In this time Kangxi reduced taxes and expanded to central asia to increase his dynasties size, and power.
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In the 1700s a writer named Cao Zhan writes book "Dreams of the Red Chamber and was considered the best book written in China and it about a chinese family declining.
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In Qianlongs rule he expands the Qing dynasty to its greatest siz and hieght it expands to Taiwan in China.
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In China at this time they have a huge population boom to 300-400 million causing a famine in China.
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In 1793 George Macartney a, British official, came to China to to expand trade in England.
