CHINA BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY

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CHINA BEFORE EUROPEAN HEGEMONY
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MAIN DYNASTIES

• TANG 618-907
• SUNG 960-1234
• SOUTHERN SUNG 960-1276
• YUAN 1276-1368
• MING 1368-1644
• QING 1644-1911

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• Growth under the Sung and Yuan
• Agriculture
• Trade (regional specialization)
• Industry (especially silk)
• Finance
• Imperial Administration
• Bureaucratic System
• Bureaucratic Control
• Macro (plan)
• Micro (manufacture, agriculture, finance, trade)
• Imperial Navy

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Canton (Guangzhou) Hangchow Zaytun (Quanzhou)
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Kaifeng, Sung Capital
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Paper money from the Sung era
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Crisis Under the Yuan and the coming of the Ming

• Plague
• Decentralization of power (provincial revolts)
• Ming (1368)
• Attempt to reestablish power
• Zeng-He (Cheng Ho)
• Recentralize by self-strengthening

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Forbidden city, built under the Ming
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1250-1350

• Mongols
• Turks
• Indian Merchants
• EUROPE MIDDLE EAST ASIA
• Flanders North Steppes China
• Champ. F. Middle Route SE Asia
• Italian Cities Southern Route India
• Crusades Arab Merchants
• Italian Merchants Italian Merchants