Ming Review 10.29.2024

China after the Mongols - Ming Dynasty

Reviewing Changes and Continuities
There will be a graded quiz at the end of this presentation.

Following the defeat of the Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan and his forces conquered the surrounding region and established the Yuan Dynasty.

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​Yuan Dynasty
Mongol's China

The Mongols quickly made changes to life in China, including rejecting the Civil Service Examination System, eliminating the Scholarly Gentry, and betraying Confucian beliefs.

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​Kublai Khan's China

Has Kublai Khan lost his mind or just his way? Many Mongols were shocked when Kublai Khan began taking steps to appear more Chinese and rejecting his Mongolian Nomadic ways. Many mongos felt insulted.

​Emperor Shisu

Multiple Choice

The breakup of the Mongol Empire into separate khanates during the mid-thirteenth century was most connected to which of the following developments?

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  The spread of the bubonic plague following the expansion of trade along the Silk Roads weakened the Mongol Empire demographically and militarily.

• Mongolian attempts to conquer japan were inhibited due to their lack of maritime warfare.

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  Mongol traditions emphasized tribal and personal loyalties and made it difficult to establish long-lasting centralized dynastic rule, which led to civil war.

• The attempts of Mongol rulers to force their subjects to convert to Islam led to widespread rebellions in Central and East Asia.

How did the Mongol Yuan Dyanasty come to an end?

Multiple Choice

Which answer best reflects the end of the Yuan Dynasty?

• Inexperienced bureacrats attempted to replace militray generals as a means of maintaining control over the people.

• Xenophobic policies reduced the amount of national funds, which were no longer being supported by trade leading to peasant revolts.

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  Rebellions in China overthrew Mongol rule after a caste system was installed placing indigenous Chinese as the bottom social class.

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  European imperial tactics reduced Chinese control over their own tradable goods leading to an outdry to remove Chinese rulers.

Following the Red Turban Rebellion, Chinese peasants were able to conquer the remaining Mongols forces and establish a new Dyansty known as "da Ming" Dynasty meaning Brightness. They quickly brought back Chinese traditions.

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A New Chapter in Chinese Hist.

The first priority of the Ming Dynasty was to ensure future invasion could not occur.

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​Rebuilding China

Multiple Choice

What steps did the Ming dynasty take to accomplish the rebuilding of the Great Wall of China?

• Peasants were forced to provide labor and supplies, some being moved far from their families.

• Peasants were admitted to the Scholarly gentry providing they offered 5 years of service.

• All residents of China were expected to provide some form fo community service in accordance to Confucian belief.

• Peasants were paid in silver for their time and effort, some reaching new levels of economic standing.

Multiple Choice

In addition to the constant building of the Great Wall, what other constructions drained national funds from the Ming Dynasty?

• Expansion of the Grand Canal.

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  The building of a fortified palace for the ruling royal family.

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  Cultivation of new drought resistant rice varieties.

• development of new gunpowder weapons.