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Jan 1, 1200
The Aperence of the Mongols
The Mongols appeared in China in 1200, and struck fear in the towns they would approch. The Mongols used brutal force and superior tactics in taking over towns. -
Jan 1, 1200
Largest Land Empire
The nomadic people of the Mongols came from Central Asia and created the largest land empire. -
Jan 1, 1227
Death of Genish Khan
By the time Genish Kan died the Mongols were in control of Central Asia. -
Jan 1, 1260
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan became the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. -
Jan 1, 1279
The Yan Dynasty
The Mongol ruler Kublai Khan conqured China and founded the Yan dynasty. -
Jan 1, 1294
Death of Kublai Khan
When Kublai Khan died the empire struggled for power. -
Jan 1, 1300
Black Death emerged
Black Death wiped out most of Europe and also was introduced in Asia and the Middle East. -
Jan 1, 1300
Chinese rebellion
The Chinese factions rebeled against the Yan dynasty -
Jan 1, 1360
The Mongols deafeted
A rebel army deafeated the Mongols. The Mongols fled to the city of Mancharia which ended the foregin rule in China. -
Jan 1, 1368
Ming Dynasty
A peasent named Zhu Yuanzhnag aslo known as Hongwu, over through the last Mongol emperor, then creating the Ming dynasty. -
Dec 11, 1396
Death of Hongwu
Once Hongwu died his son took over and become the emoperor, ruling from 1402-1424. -
Jan 1, 1402
Ruling Under Yonglo
When Yonglo was in rule he moved the Ming capital to Bejing and build the great Imerial City which is now known as The Forbidden City. He also intruduced the introduction of overseas vouages. -
Jan 1, 1405
Oversea Voyages
A chinese Muslim admiral named Zheng HW led over seven voyages accross the Indian Ocean all the way to Africa. He led over 600 ship to these destinations to show the Chinese power on the water. All of this increased China's growing power. -
Dec 11, 1433
End of Oversea Voyages
Zheng He ended the over sea voyages becasue they had become to big of an economical issue and Chinese officals siad that it would be better off using the money for other resources. -
Jan 1, 1500
Restriction of Trade
The Ming emperor strictly controlled the outside contact of trade the only ports that were availible to them were a few chinese ports such as Canton and were still under tight restrictions. -
Jan 1, 1500
Arrival of Christian missionaries
The Ming emperors also shut down the ports because the European traders introduced new good ideas but the emperors wanted to preserve chinese traditions. -
Jan 1, 1500
Agricultural Society
The Ming dynasty imporved the ways of irrigationg which helped with farm production. The American crops reached China such as corn and sweet potatos which aslo helped with farming. All of these improvments led to population growth and need for Chinses goods by the Europeans. -
Sep 30, 1500
Ming Declining
Because of many weak rulers in the Ming dynasty led the corruption and higher taxes. -
European infulence
An Italian Jesuit priest named Matteo Ricci learned the Chinese languafe and the customs so he could be accepted by them to teach them there tradtitions. He became a part of the Ming court and began to tech them about mathmatics and science. -
The Great Wall of China
When the Europeans came the Mongols renewed a threat in the north, the Ming restored the Great Wall fro defense concidering most of the Wall was already built during the Ming dynasty. -
Raised taxes
When the taxes were raised to increase defense the crops started to fail and rebellions broke out from hardship. -
End of Ming
Once the Ming China was weakend the group from Manchuria called the Manchu decided to attack, first they took the capital Bejing, then the emperor killed himself so he wouldnt be captured. The Manchu then took the dynasty and renamed it Qing. -
The Qing Dynasty
The qing dynasty began in 1644 and ended in 1911, they ruled for 3500 and were the last imperal rule in China. -
Qings great emperor
One of Qing's greatest emperor's was Kangxi. During his rule he reduced taxes and expanded the emprie through parts of Central Asia, he aslo suppored the intulectuals of the Jesuit preists. -
Chinese Novels
The novel Dream of the Red Chamber was written by Cao Zhan was one of the first Chinese novel published and one of the greatest novels aswell. It talks about the decline of the upper class chinese families. -
Qianlong; Kangxi's grandson
Qianlong was also concidered to be a great ruler. He ruled through 1769 during this he conqured the largest range including Taiwan, Mongolia, and Tibet. -
Population boom
The agriculture stared to rise increasing the population increased over 300 million people lived in China, the economy was also booming from transportation. -
British Goods
Lord George Macartney came to China to talk about expanding thier trade to England. The Chinese insisted that he show respect but he wouldnt agree so they told him to leave. -
Advance civilization
Since China was the most advanced civilizations in the world but since the Chinese were isolated with the trade network the Europeans advancments would overgo the China's imerail rule.
