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Temujin, a Mongol Khan, began conquering other Mongol tribes and uniting them under his rule.
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The Mongols, a nomadic tribe of people, rise to power using superior tactics and weapons, seige warfare, ruthless cunning and brutality to gain land throughout central Asia. The mongols would create the largest land empire in history.
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Temujin succeeds in conquering the other Mongol tribes. After he succeeds, he clames the title of Genhis Khan, meaning "Universal Ruler."
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Gengis Khan leeds the Mongols in conquering Asia. Through their battles the Mongols learn of seige warfare. The Mongols use the new style of warfare and it helped them conquer more and more territory.
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At the time of Genghis Kahn's death, the Mongols had conquered most of northern and central Asia. On his deathbed, he said to his children and grandchildren, "With Heaven's aid I have coquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you." His children take up this challenge and expand the empire even more.
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Kublai Kahn, grandson of Genghis Kahn, begins his conquer of China and Korea. Determined to conquer all of China, Kublai Kahn pushed south into the Song territory and ultimatly deffeated them. Kublai Kahn also tried invading Japan, and failed due to "kamikazes," or divine winds that "saved" the Japanese from the Mongols.
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Genghis Kahn's grandson, Batu, with his army called the Golden Horde, started the conquest to take Russia.
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Kublai Kahn, grandson of Genghis Kahn, becomes ruler of the Mongol empire.
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Marco Polo travels to China to look for goods to trade. He meets the Mongols and Kublai Kahn. Kublai Kahn liked Marco Polo and sent him on missions for 17 years around China.
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The Song dynasty of China finally fell to the Mongols. Kublai Kahn creates the Yuan dynasty and declares himself emperor.
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Kublai Kahn dies. Many power struggles for who will rule the Mongol empire. This caused the Yuan dynasty to weaken.
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After many missions and travels asigned be Kublai Kahn, Marco Polo finally retuns to Venice and tells of his travels to Europe.
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Due to the power struggle and weakening of the Yuan empire, many rebel groups strated to rise. Also, at this time the Black Deaath is affecting Europe.
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With a weakend dynasty, many chinese rebel groups rise to fight against the Yuan dynasty. The rebel group that defeated the Mongols was lead by Zhu Yuanzhang, who later claims the throne of china and names himself Hongwu, meaning vastly martial. He also creates the Ming dynasty of China.
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Hongwu was a strong ruler that killed anybody that he saw challenging. He finaly dies and there is a short power struggle for who will take the throne.
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After his father, Hongwu, dies there is a power struggle for who will take the throne. Yonglo takes the throne and becomes ruler of China. Yonglo moves the capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, a city within Beijing that was forbidden for most people from entering.
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Zheng He was a Chinese Muslim admiral that led voyages throughout the Indian Ocean. His voyages travels as far west as Africa. Zheng He would sail with fleets of 300, with trading ships called junks.
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Yonglo's reign as emperor ends when he dies and a new emperor rises.
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After Yonglo dies, a new emperor takes the throne. This new emperor stopped the over sea voyages, because of how expensive they were and the people of China complained that their resources should be spent elsewhere.
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When Zheng He stopped his voyages, it was part of a movement to make China a closed society. The Ming heavily restricted any trade will foreign lands.
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Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jersuit, arrived in China. to gain Chinese aceptance, he learned Chinese language and customs. Ricci got accepted into the Ming court, and he shared his knowledge of European mathmatics and science with the Ming court.
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The Qin dynasty was made up of Manchu rulers, who were foreign to China that they ruled. The Manchu would wear their hair in a queue, a type of braid where you shave the front of the head and have the hair in the back braided. the Qin dynasty ruled for about 300 years throughout China.
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The Ming dynasty falls to the Manchu, a group of people of northwest china in the region of Manchuria. The last Ming emperor committed suicide to avoid being murdered by the Manchu.
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Kangxi, a Qin ruler, ruled from 1661 to 1772. He reduced taxes and expanded his empire into Central Asia.
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Qian Long was Kangxi's grandson who brought the Qin dynasty to its height. He brought the Chinese empire to its largest size by conquering Taiwan, Mongolia, and Tibet.
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Chinas resources increased under Qian Long's rule, and so did the population. Chinas population became more than 300 million by 1750.
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Kangxi dies and another Qin ruler rules Qin China.
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Lord George Macartney, a British oficial, arrived in China to discuss trade. The Chinese did not approve of the British goods that Macartney had proposed of trading. Macartney also did not show respect to the emperor by not kowtowing, or bowing and touching your forehead nine times to the ground.
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Qian Long dies and another Qin ruler rises to continue the rule of Qin China.
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European influenses and efforts finaly make Qin China's power fall. Withthe Qin's power weakened, China is no longer a closed society
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The last Qin ruler is no longer in power, ending imerial rule in China. New forms of government rule China afterwards.
