Ming

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Ming Qing Dynasties
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Ming Dynasty

• Replaced the Mongol Dynasty
• Late 1300s
• Construction of Beijing as the capital
• Imperial City
• Forbidden City
• Rid China of Mongol influences
• Chinese purity
• Belief in self-sufficiency
• Enhanced border defenses rather than trade

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Qing Dynasty

• Manchu people of northern China
• Only small percent of Chinese population
• Worked to share power by incorporating Chinese
  officials in the government
• 1644-1912
• Dynasty weakened just as Europeans arrived
• Last dynasty in China

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Europeans

• Portuguese
• Reached China in 1514
• 1st European contact since Marco Polo
• Restricted to the trading port of Macao
• Jesuit missionaries
• Anti-missionary feelings develop

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More Europeans

• British
• Guangzhou
• Late 1600s they begin to pressure China for
  trade
• British East India Tea Company
• Allowed restricted contact with the Chinese

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Chinese Life and Culture
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Chinese Economy

• Nearly all were small farmers
• Use of new crops from the Americas
• Trade within China continued to grow
• Industries being to develop
• Chinese junks
• Most advanced ships in the world
• Contact with Africa, India and the ME in early
  1400s

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Chinese Life

• Most of the people lived and worked in small
  villages
• Agricultural production increased because of
  better techniques, irrigation, and the Grand
  Canal thus leading to great population growth
• Many townspeople began to work as merchants as
  trade increased

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Chinese Culture

• Traditional Confucian values remained strong
• Qing dynasty required Chinese men to wear hair in
  braid as was the Manchu custom
• Manchu people of the Qing dynasty were legally a
  separate and higher class of citizens

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Chinese Culture Ctn

• Ming porcelain admired around the world
• Growth of printed novels and stories

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Chinas Decline

• Weakness of Qing dynasty
• Economic and bureaucratic problems
• Domination by foreign powers
• Several rebellions within China