Transcript The Ming Dynasty - High Point University

The Ming Dynasty
By: Jay Simpson
The Cause
• Mongol rule of China had reached its end due to
civil war and increasing accent of the sedentary
Chinese ‘Way of Life’
• Multiple Natural Disasters destroyed the Mongol
Military
• ‘Mandate of Heaven’ shifted to a new leader,
Zhu Yuanzhang, who sparked the Ming Dynasty
in 1368
• The Capital was to be Nanjing, now known as
Beijing
When?
• The Ming Dynasty officially started in 1368
• This Dynasty spanned for three centuries
after the fall of the Mongols (1271-1368)
and the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911)
Positive Gains
• The Ming Dynasty
reunited a term of
‘proper China’, taking
out insurgents and
cleaning up the
lifestyles of it’s
followers
• They obtained control
of multiple foreign
territories
• Took the Mongols to
the North
• Occupied the
Western Regions
• Governed Tibet in the
South and SouthWest
• Conquered the
Nuzhen from the
North-East
Why so Prosperous?
• The Ming Dynasty was highly prosperous due to
the agrarian-centered society
• The sciences and arts boomed to new levels as
population soared to 1 million strong
• They truly believed they were a ‘perfect’
civilization
• New crops including maize and corn flourished
through agriculture advances
• They also completed the Great Wall which still
stands to this day
The Final Days
• Increased attacks by the Mongols as well
as Japanese insurgency strikes, the
economy was weakened by the early
1600s
• Peasant uprising sparked in 1627 which
dealt the Empire a harsh blow
• Rebels took out the Capital in 1644,
clearing way for the Manchu to invade and
conquer the land of the Ming