Imperial China:

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Imperial China Qin to Ming Dynasties
by Mr. Walker
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Ming China, 1368-1644
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Mandate of Heaven
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Ming Dynasty

• China dominant power in Asia
• Tribute System
• Payment to a country to show submission
• Hongwu
• Drove Mongols out of China
• First Ming emperor
• Reforms

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Hongwus Reforms

• Restore agriculture lands
• Erase Mongol past
• Increase production of rice
• Grew sugar cane and cotton
• Confucian morals
• Civil service exam
• Paranoid about a takeover

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Civil Service Exam
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Ming Dynasty

• Yonglo Hongwus Son
• Moved capital to Beijing
• Very curious about outside world
• Seven Voyages of exploration
• Impress the world
• Expand tribute system
• Zheng He lead voyages
• Chinese Christopher Columbus
• Floating Cities
• Gave many gifts to countries
• Seen as a waste of resourcesisolation

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Admiral Zheng He

• Ming Treasure Fleet
• Each ship 400 long 160 wide

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Ming Isolation and Decline

• Three ports for trade
• Encouraged smugglers
• Do not industrialize (agriculture)
• Christian missionaries come in
• New ideas (science/technology)
• Some welcomed, some not so much
• Many years of bad rulers, bad harvests lead to
  decline
• Invasion from the north
• Manchus (Manchuria)

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Ming Porcelain
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Ming Vases, 18c
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Carved Dish
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Chinese Scholar
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Ming Painting
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Qing Dynasty

• Not welcomed at first
• Kangxi first Qing emperor
• Lowered taxes
• Govt jobs to intellectuals
• Invited Jesuits to his court
• Told him about outside world
• Science, medicine, math, etc.
• Qian-long Kangxis grandson
• China greatest size
• Worked his butt off for china

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Qing Dynasty

• Strict Chinese rules for foreigners
• Dutch very accepting of this
• Paid tribute
• kowtow
• Welcomed trading partners
• British Not so much
• Refused to kowtow
• No tribute
• No trading

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Life in China

• Increase in Farming population boom
• Sons favored over daughters
• Some killed at birth
• Women managed finances and supervised childs
  education
• Some had outside jobs, not many
• Able to preserve traditions in seclusion, next up
  is Japan