Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty

Institute for the Study of Western Civilization February 23, 2018

Ruby Ming

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SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Mǐn Sǔn

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng bright

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng bright

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng bright Ming Dynasty

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng bright Ming Dynasty

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 míng bright Ming Dynasty Great Brightness

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Dante Leonardo Q.Elizabeth ----| |------| |------| 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 | Plague Renaissance

Age of Exploration < Middle Ages Reformation

< Pax Colonial America Mongolica

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Hongwu Reign “vast military power” 1368 - 1398

Temple Name Taizu “grand progenitor”

Zhu Yuanzhang b.1328 - d.1398

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Beijing.

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.Shanghai

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Red Turban Uprising

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Hongwu Empress Ma

Empress Xiaocigao b. 1332 - d.1382

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Beijing.

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Nanjing..Shanghai

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 1356: Zhu Yuanzhang and Nanjing City

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Major rebels and warlords at the end of Yuan Dynasty

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Buddhism Daoism Confucianism

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Confucius

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SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Major rebels and warlords at the end of Yuan Dynasty

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Hongwu Emperor “vast military power” r.1368 - 1398

Temple Name Taizu “grand progenitor”

Zhu Yuanzhang b.1328 - d.1398

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Military Civil Eunuchs

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Military Civil Eunuchs

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Hongwu Empress Ma

Empress Xiaocigao b. 1332 - d.1382

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Hongwu Emperor “vast military power” r. 1368 - 1398

Temple Name Taizu “grand progenitor”

Zhu Yuanzhang b.1328 - d.1398

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Jianwen Emperor “establishing civility” r. 1399 - 1402

Temple Name Huidi

Zhu Yunwen b.1377 - d.1402

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Yongle Emperor “perpetual happiness” r. 1403 - 1424

Temple Name Taizong “grand ancestor”

Zhu Di b.1360 - d.1424

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Zheng He

Ma He b.1371 - d.1433

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Indian Ocean

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Indonesia

Malacca Java

SaturdayAugust 10, 2019 Yongle Empress Xu

Empress Renxiaowen

Xu Yihua b. 1362 - d.1407

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