Ming to Qing china Review o Mongols Conquer China By about 1275 o Yuan Dynasty 1271 1368 Under control of Kubali Khan o Controlling Chinese Forbids weaponry Forbids assembly Curfew o Revolts 1350 s Plaque hits china Inflation Famine o Lost Mandate of Haven 1360 s Massive revolt o Organized by red turbans o They win o Lead of the red turban Hung wu creates o Ming Dynasty 1368 Changes by Hong Wu o Moves capital to Nanjing o Hong Wu peasant Distrusts nobles Removes their estates Distributes them to the poor o Changes taxing system Bringing down the wealthy o Reorganizing china into farming districts Become very powerful Collect taxes and spend them in the region No oversight o Possibility of corruption Problems with infrastructure o No setup between regions Removes the office of prime minister who is also a noble o Confucian ideas Hierarchies Emperor is at the center o Yong la o o o o o o o o o o Turns to his staf Eunuchs o No children no ambition o They become very powerful Vast Bureaucracy Examination system 1 2 pass Kills the emperor nephew and takes the throne Moves the capital to Beijing Builds the forbidden city Agriculture begun by Hung Wu continued by him Rice in the south Champa Rice Doubled the amount of rice 2 crops per year Wheat in the north Terrace farming Improve irrigation Introduce fish Land Reclamation Project Reclaim depopulated areas Reforestation 1 billion tress Leads to population explosion Leads to problems Financial corruption Trade routes collapse Inflation paper money Silver devalued and have more inflation Confucian system Only noble life Farming Merchants thieves Invaders from the north Mongols raiding Manchu staying Reopen in force The great wall Inflation economic crisis Peasent revolt Famine Diseases Lost the mandate of Heaven Very powerful revolt get all the way to Beijing Current emperor commits suicide o One general Lets Manchu through the great wall 1644 Manchu Invasion Conquer china Qing Dynasty Only 1 million Mochu 350 million Chinese Assemble Bureaucracy Exam system Emperor at center o Backed by army Allows Chinese to participate in government Diferences o Clothing o Language o No intermarriage o Force Chinese men to wear pinyin pigtail Emperors are more involved in ruling remove some court bureaucracy Expand Taiwan Tibet Foreign pressure o Russia wants pacific part China self sufficient Really limit trade Britain sends embassy Qin Long o Led by Lord George Macartneg 1792 o Doesn t go well Britain sends gifts Watches and planetarium China not interested Britain want trade agreement China says no they want silver Britain want Tea Porcelain Silk o Failure o British don t give up
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