Fall of Mongols/Ming Dynasty Overview

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Fall of Mongols/Ming Dynasty Overview
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You Khant Always Get What You Want The Fallout
of the Yuan Dynasty

• Inter-Mongol fighting
• TAX FARMING Peasant Rebellions
• Plague (1340s) Effects of the Plague
• Mongols out of China by 1368

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Ming Dynasty Map
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• Confucian Exam System Comes Back!
• Chinese goods superior (porcelain, silk, paper,
  etc.)
• Europeans traded silver for these luxuries
• Should China focus on internal defense or
  external displays of power?

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No More Mongol for You!Inward-Focused Policies

• 1) Banned overseas voyages
• 2) Didnt focus on going OUT and trading
  (merchants viewed badly again)
• 3) Protect from scary pastoralists to the North
• Assumption People will come to China b/c it is
  awesome. China does not need to go to others.

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Great Wall of China
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New Emperors Groove

• New Emperor Yongle in 1403
• Establishes new Outward-Focused Policies
• Trade increased
• Built up the Forbidden City

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Zheng Hes Voyages

• Each ship 400 long 160 wide
• Fleet of 57 vessels
• 7 voyages- approx. 28,000 traveled
• Goals (Aim to Awe, NOT Attack NOT Trade)
• 1) Show off Ming greatness
• 2) Establish tribute states

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Ming Cultural Height

• Porcelain and Painting reach new levels of
  greatness
• Emperors use of Confucian rituals art to
  legitimize rule establish power become more
  important
• Sound familiar?

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Ming Art Characteristics

• Mimicked style of previous CHINESE Dynasties
  (like Song)
• Focus on Confucian harmony
• Focus on NATURE, not humans (the opposite of
  Renaissance art!)
• Used to display power
• Use of Porcelain especially blue and white ware

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Blue and White Ming ware
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The picture on the gate above shows a Confucian
scholar on the left at a desk. It is basically a
propaganda piece showing how the elites bring
harmony to society.
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Big Questions

1. What were some of the issues which led to the
   collapse of the Mongol Empire?
2. How did Confucian policies differ from those of
   Emperor Yongle?
3. For what purpose were the Zheng He voyages
   commissioned?
4. How is European Renaissance art and art of the
   Ming Dynasty to be compared?

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